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Adams v. Tanner

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Overruled
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
244 U.S. 590
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
8 of 8
Citing cases (total)
8
Treatment dates
1963
Overruled
A reviewed court has overruled this case. Adams v. Tanner was overruled by Ferguson v. Skrupa on whether due process protects a useful business from state prohibition. All 8 flagged citations have been read.
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The Supreme Court rejected Adams's rule that courts may invalidate a business prohibition because they consider the business useful, and rejected its distinction between prohibition and regulation. The confirmed treatment is listed below.

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.

8 later cases cite Adams v. Tanner; 8 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

  • The Supreme Court rejected Adams's rule that due process bars a state from prohibiting a useful business and its distinction between prohibiting and regulating that business.

    Ferguson v. Skrupa · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    In the face of our abandonment of the use of the “vague contours” of the Due Process Clause to nullify laws which a majority of the Court believed to be economically unwise, reliance on Adams v. Tanner is as mistaken as would be adherence to Adkins v. Children’s Hospital, overruled by West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, 300 U. S. 379 (1937). Not only has the philosophy of Adams been abandoned, but also this Court almost 15 years ago expressly pointed to another opinion of this Court as having “clearly undermined” Adams.
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