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Evans v. Gore

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Overruled in part
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
253 U.S. 245
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
25 of 25
Citing cases (total)
25
Treatment dates
2001
Overruled in part
A reviewed court has overruled part of this case’s holding. Evans v. Gore was overruled in part by United States v. Hatter. The Supreme Court held that Congress may apply a generally applicable, nondiscriminatory tax to federal judges' salaries, including judges appointed before the tax was enacted.
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Evans's protection against discriminatory measures remains. The confirmed treatment is listed below. All 25 flagged citations have been read; Black v. Graves addressed New York law, Baker v. Commissioner applied Evans's own appointment-date distinction, and a concurrence reported the effect of O'Malley v. Woodrough on Evans.

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.

25 later cases cite Evans v. Gore; 25 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 Evans's rule exempting federal judges' salaries from generally applicable, nondiscriminatory taxes.

    United States v. Hatter · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    We now overrule Evans insofar as it holds that the Compensation Clause forbids Congress to apply a generally applicable, nondiseriminatory tax to the salaries of federal judges, whether or not they were appointed before enactment of the tax.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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