Swift v. Tyson
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Overruled
- Overruled by Erie Railroad v. Tompkins (1938)suggested link
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), Table of Supreme Court Decisions Overruled by Subsequent Decisions, p. 2448: Erie Railroad v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938) — Swift v. Tyson, 41 U.S. (16 Pet.) 1 (1842).
Syllabus
No syllabus is shown. Volume 41 is one of the early reports (before volume 91), whose headnotes are the reporter's own.
Why it is here
The library's first set of cases is chosen by fixed rules from the Constitution Annotated (2022), which cites this case as “Swift v. Tyson, 41 U.S. (16 Pet.) 1 (1842)”:
- overruled by Erie Railroad v. Tompkins (table of overruled decisions)