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Darnell v. Indiana

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Overruled in part
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
226 U.S. 390
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
4 of 4
Citing cases (total)
4
Treatment dates
1996
Overruled in part
A reviewed court has overruled part of this case’s holding. Darnell v. Indiana has been overruled in part: all 4 flagged citations have been read, and the confirmed treatment is listed below. Fulton Corp. v. Faulkner held that Darnell no longer controls discriminatory state taxation under the Commerce Clause while preserving possible Equal Protection authority.
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The other reviewed opinions applied Darnell or addressed its continuing force without rejecting it.

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.

4 later cases cite Darnell v. Indiana; 4 of those citations 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 in Part

  • The Supreme Court overruled Darnell under the Commerce Clause while preserving its possible use as Equal Protection authority.

    Fulton Corp. v. Faulkner · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    To the extent that Darnell evaluated a discriminatory state tax under the Equal Protection Clause, time simply has passed it by. ... Hence, while cases like Kidd and Darnell may still be authorities under the Equal Protection Clause, they are no longer good law under the Commerce Clause. ... North Carolina’s intangibles tax cannot pass muster under modern compensatory tax cases, and Darnell cannot save it.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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