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Connolly v. Union Sewer Pipe Co.

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Overruled
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
184 U.S. 540
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
20 of 20
Treatment dates
1940
Overruled
A reviewed court has overruled this case. Connolly v. Union Sewer Pipe Co. was overruled: all 20 flagged citations have been read, and the confirmed treatment is listed below. Tigner v. Texas rejected Connolly's equal protection ruling against an antitrust exemption for agricultural producers.
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The Supreme Court later described that ruling as “overruled by Tigner.” Connolly's separate rule that a buyer must pay for goods despite the seller's unlawful combination continued to be applied. The Constitution Annotated lists Tigner as the overruling decision.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

20 citations to Connolly v. Union Sewer Pipe Co. sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Overruled

  • The Supreme Court rejected Connolly's rule that an antitrust exemption for agricultural producers violated equal protection.

    Tigner v. Texas · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    And so we conclude that to write into law the differences between agriculture and other economic pursuits was within the power of the Texas legislature. Connolly’s case has been worn away by the erosion of time, and we are of opinion that it is no longer controlling.
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