How many supreme court decisions have been reversed?

Question

Or can you mention supreme court decisions that have been reversed?

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Answer 1

i dont know of any court case that has been to the supreme court twice - i would presume that the talk of reversing roe vs wade is still in the air - but that case has NOPT come back to the court room yet

While several cases have been overuled by newer opinions - this is NOT the same thing as reversing it - to reverse it the same case must be tried again - i dont think this has ever happened yet

Answer 2

Depending on what you mean by "reversed", either zero or lots.

There is no higher legal authority than the US Supreme Court when interpreting the Constitution, so nobody can reverse a Supreme Court decision..... except the court itself. But that isn't referred to as a reversal. That's an overturning of a previous ruling by a new ruling.

State Supreme Courts can be overruled by the US Supreme Court, or they can overrule their own rulings. But again, those don't count as "reversals" the way an appellate court and reverse a lower court ruling.

If a statute changes (state or federal) then an interpretation of that statute by the state Supreme Court or the US Supreme Court might become obsolete. But again, that's not called a reversal.

So, by the literal use of the word, none. By effective meaning, both state Supreme Courts and the US Supreme court have frequently overrturned prior rulings.

One example off the top of my head is Bowers v. Hardwick, which as overruled by Lawrence v. Texas. There are many other examples of either complete or partial overruling of prior decisions. The Planned Parenthood v. Casey decision partially overruled Roe v. Wade back in the early 1990s.

Answer 3

I can think of one significant one. The Court's decision in Plesey versus Ferguson in the mid-1890s, which allowed for public schools to be "separate but equal" in keeping races apart in the classroom, was essentially reversed in the Brown versus Topeka Board of Education case in 1954. That opinion, written by Earl Warren (the Chief Justice of the United States) struck down the "separate but equal" doctrine and ordered public schools to desegregate with "all deliberate speed".