Talk:List of overruled United States Supreme Court decisions

Dred Scott vs Sandford???

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Why is not the USSC Taney - Dred Scott decision not on the list page??? 72.211.218.50 (talk) 13:53, 2 September 2015 (UTC)


 * The Dred Scott decision was overturned by the 14th Amendment, not by a court decision. Kaltenmeyer (talk) 15:33, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

What about Pace v. Alabama (106 U.S. 583) overturned by Loving v. Virginia  (anti-miscegenation)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.166.125.35 (talk) 07:23, 19 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Loving says that the reasoning of Pace has previously been rejected by an 1964 decision, McLaughlin, but Loving does not explicitly overrule Pace. Kaltenmeyer (talk) 15:33, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

86 Missing overruling cases?
This list from the Government Printing Office, cited at the bottom of the Wiki article, lists 179 explicit decisions (marked with an asterisk) that overruled previous decisions (and 233 total) through 2010. But this Wiki page only has 137 instances of a decision explicitly overruling another decision (and, since many overturn several decisions, only 115 actual overruling cases). Does anyone know why so many of the decisions on the GPO list are not included here?

For example, the last case on the GPO list is McDonald v. City of Chicago As the info box on the Wiki page for that decision says "This case overturned a previous ruling or rulings: United States v. Cruikshank (1876) (in part); Presser v. Illinois (1886)". The GPO list says it also overruled Miller v. Texas 153 U.S. 535 (1894).

Here are the 86 GPO explicit overruling cases not listed in this article. Note that I've linked to cases that have a Wikipedia page and that page also indicates that the case overruled precedent.


 * 6. Gazzam v. Phillip’s Lessee 61 U.S (1858)
 * 12. Hornbuckle v. Toombs 85 U.S. (18 Wall.) 648, 652–653 (1874)
 * 13. Union Pac. Ry. v. McShane 89 U.S. (22 Wall.) 444 (1874)
 * 14. County of Cass v. Johnston 95 U.S. 360 (1877)
 * 15. Fairfield v. County of Gallatin 100 U.S. 47 (1879)
 * 16. Tilghman v. Proctor 102 U.S. 707 (1880)
 * 18. United States v. Phelps 107 U.S. 320, 323 (1883)
 * 19. Kountze v. Omaha Hotel Co. 107 U.S. 378, 387 (1883)
 * 20. Morgan v. United States 113 U.S. 476, 496 (1885)
 * 24. Leloup v. Port of Mobile 127 U.S. 640, 647 (1888)
 * 25. Leisy v. Hardin 135 U.S. 100, 118 (1890)
 * 26. Brenham v. German-American Bank 144 U.S. 173, 187 (1892)
 * 27. Roberts v. Lewis 153 U.S. 367, 377 (1894)
 * 29. Garland v. Washington 232 U.S. 642, 646 (1914)
 * 30. United States v. Nice 241 U.S. 591, 601 (1916)
 * 32. Rosen v. United States 245 U.S. 467, 470 (1918)
 * 33. Boston Store v. American Graphophone Co. 246 U.S. 8, 25 (1918)
 * 34. Terral v. Burke Constr. Co. 257 U.S. 529, 533 (1922)
 * 35. Lee v. Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. 260 U.S. 653, 659 (1923)
 * 36. Alpha Cement Co. v. Massachusetts 268 U.S. 203, 218 (1925)
 * 38. Gleason v. Seaboard Ry. 278 U.S. 349, 357 (1929)
 * 39. Farmers Loan Co. v. Minnesota 280 U.S. 204, 209 (1930)
 * 40. East Ohio Gas Co. v. Tax Comm’n 283 U.S. 465, 472 (1931)
 * 41. Chicago & E.I.R.R. v. Industrial Comm’n 284 U.S. 296 (1932)
 * 44. Funk v. United States 290 U.S. 371, 373, 386 (1933)
 * 47. Helvering v. Producers Corp. 303 U.S. 376 (1938)
 * 49. Graves v. New York ex rel. O’Keefe 306 U.S. 466 (1939)
 * 52. Madden v. Kentucky 309 U.S. 83 (1940)
 * 53. Helvering v. Hallock 309 U.S. 106 (1940)
 * 56. United States v. Chicago, M., St. P. & P.R.R. 312 U.S. 592 (1941)
 * 57. Nye v. United States 313 U.S. 33 (1941)
 * 58. California v. Thompson 313 U.S. 109 (1941)
 * 60. Olsen v. Nebraska ex rel. Western Reference and Bond Ass’n 313 U.S. 236 (1941)
 * 61. Alabama v. King & Boozer 314 U.S. 1 (1941)
 * 64. State Tax Comm’n v. Aldrich 316 U.S. 174 (1942)
 * 65. Williams v. North Carolina 317 U.S. 287 (1942)
 * 66. Brady v. Roosevelt S.S. Co. 317 U.S. 575 (1943)
 * 67. Jones v. Opelika 319 U.S. 103 (1943) (re-argument)
 * 73. Smith v. Allwright 321 U.S. 649 (1944)
 * 75. Girouard v. United States 328 U.S. 61 (1946)
 * 78. Angel v. Bullington 330 U.S. 183 (1947)
 * 83. Commissioner v. Estate of Church 335 U.S. 632, 637 (1949)
 * 85. Oklahoma Tax Comm’n v. Texas Co. 336 U.S. 342 (1949)
 * 86. Cosmopolitan Co. v. McAllister 337 U.S. 783 (1949)
 * 87. United States v. Rabinowitz 339 U.S. 56, 66, 85 (1950)
 * 88. Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson 343 U.S. 495, 502 (1952)
 * 92. Reid v. Covert 354 U.S. 1 (1957)
 * 93. Vanderbilt v. Vanderbilt 354 U.S. 416, 419 (1957);
 * 94. Ladner v. United States 358 U.S. 169 (1958) (on rehearing)
 * 95. United States v. Raines 362 U.S. 17, 27 (1960)
 * 97. James v. United States 366 U.S. 213, 215, 221, 223, 241 (1961)
 * 99. Baker v. Carr 369 U.S. 186, 277, 280 (1962)
 * 100. Wesberry v. Sanders 376 U.S. 1 (1964)
 * 101. Smith v. Evening News Ass’n 371 U.S. 195, 199 (1962);
 * 102. Construction Laborers v. Curry 371 U.S. 542, 552, 554 (1963)
 * 104. Gray v. Sanders 372 U.S. 368, 383 (1963)
 * 105. Fay v. Noia 372 U.S. 391, 435 (1963)
 * 106. Ferguson v. Skrupa 372 U.S. 726, 731 (1963)
 * 109. Murphy v. Waterfront Commission 378 U.S. 52, 57, 77 (1964)
 * 110. Jackson v. Denno 378 U.S. 368, 391 (1964)
 * 112. Pointer v. Texas 380 U.S. 400, 406 (1965)
 * 114. Swift & Co. v. Wickham 382 U.S. 111 (1965)
 * 115. Harris v. United States 382 U.S. 162 (1965)
 * 120. Warden v. Hayden 387 U.S. 294 (1967)
 * 121. Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San Francisco 387 U.S. 523 (1967)
 * 128. Lee v. Florida 392 U.S. 378 (1968)
 * 129. Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. 392 U.S. 409, 441–443 (1968)
 * 130. Moore v. Ogilvie 394 U.S. 814 (1969)
 * 138. Williams v. Florida 399 U.S. 78 (1970)
 * 142. Dunn v. Blumstein 405 U.S. 330 (1972)
 * 149. Mitchell v. W.T. Grant Co. 416 U.S. 600 (1975)
 * 156. National League of Cities v. Usery 426 U.S. 833 (1976)
 * 159. Gregg v. Georgia 428 U.S. 153, 195 n.47 (1976)
 * 164. Shaffer v. Heitner 433 U.S. 186 (1977)
 * 175. Sporhase v. Nebraska ex rel. Douglas 458 U.S. 941 (1982)
 * 189. Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. v. Mayacamas Corp. 485 U.S. 271 (1988)
 * 191. Thornburgh v. Abbott 490 U.S. 401 (1989)
 * 202. Keeney v. Tamayo-Reyes 504 U.S. 1 (1992)
 * 203. Quill Corp. v. North Dakota 504 U.S. 298 (1992)
 * 210. Fulton Corp. v. Faulkner 516 U.S. 325 (1996)
 * 212. 44 Liquormart, Inc. v. Rhode Island 517 U.S. 484 (1996)
 * 216. Hohn v. United States 524 U.S. 236 (1998)
 * 217. Minnesota v. Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians 526 U.S. 172 (1999)
 * 228. Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 551 U.S. 701 (2007)
 * 229. Gonzales v. Carhart 550 U.S. 124 (2007)
 * 233. McDonald v. City of Chicago 561 U.S. ___, No. 08–1521, slip op. (2010)

These 4 cases are listed in the Wiki article as explicitly overruling, but the GPO lists them as non-explicit:


 * 74. United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Ass'n, 322 U.S. 533 (1944)
 * 134. Ashe v. Swenson, 397 U.S. 436 (1970)
 * 180. Copperweld Corp. v. Independence Tube Corp., 467 U.S. 752 (1984)
 * 200. Coleman v. Thompson, 501 U.S. 722 (1991)

This could be just a difference of opinion.

The Wiki article includes these 6 additional cases which the GPO list does not have (as well as 13 cases decided since the GPO list was published in 2010):

Randy Schutt (talk) 23:03, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Glidden Co. v. Zdanok, 370 U.S. 530 (1962)
 * McLaughlin v. Florida, 379 U.S. 184 (1964)
 * Hensley v. Municipal Court, 411 U.S. 345 (1973)
 * Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill, 470 U.S. 532 (1985)
 * Lingle v. Chevron U.S.A. Inc., 544 U.S. 528 (2005)
 * Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc., 551 U.S. 877 (2007)

Overruled vs overturned, and multiple overturns
Hi, are "overruled" (used in title of this article) and "overturned" the same thing? I'd considered a decision overruled both by an overturn (later Court reverses earlier decision) or by a new law or amendment undoing an earlier decision (13th/14th amendments overruled Dred Scott case by that notion). I may be using terminology incorrectly though.

Also, are there cases that the Sup Ct reversed more than once? Like Lawrence v. Texas reversed some earlier decisions, but Justice Thomas proposed that the current court reverse Lawrence v. Texas, so the two reversals would cancel each other out. I'm wondering whether anything like that has actually happened. If yes, it should probably be noted in the article. Thanks. 2601:644:8501:AAF0:0:0:0:9BB0 (talk) 20:05, 1 July 2024 (UTC)