1946 term · Vinson Court · 6-3
Ballard et al. v. United States
329 U.S. 187 · 67 S. Ct. 261 · 1946 U.S. LEXIS 1658
The record
- Term
- 1946
- Decided
- Issue area
- Civil Rights
- Vote split
- 6-3
- Winning party
- Petitioner
- Decision direction
- Liberal
- Chief Justice
- Vinson Court
- Disposition
- Reversed
- Docket
- 37
- U.S. Reports
- 329 U.S. 187
- S. Ct. citation
- 67 S. Ct. 261
- LEXIS citation
- 1946 U.S. LEXIS 1658
How the bench divided
MMMMMCDDD
M 5 majorityC 1 concurringD 3 dissenting
| Justice | Vote |
|---|---|
| William O. Douglas | Majority |
| Stanley Reed | Majority |
| Hugo Black | Majority |
| Wiley Rutledge | Majority |
| Frank Murphy | Majority |
| Robert H. Jackson | Special concurrence |
| Harold Burton | Dissent |
| Felix Frankfurter | Dissent |
| Fred M. Vinson | Dissent |
Same issue area
More on Civil Rights
Decisions the Court reached on the same question, nearest in time to this one. Civil Rights accounts for 1,508 of the 9,277 decisions in this dataset.