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1948 term · Vinson Court · 9-0

Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Phipps

336 U.S. 410 · 69 S. Ct. 616 · 1949 U.S. LEXIS 3040

The record

Term
1948
Decided
Issue area
Federal Taxation
Vote split
9-0
Winning party
Petitioner
Decision direction
Liberal
Chief Justice
Vinson Court
Disposition
Reversed
Docket
83
U.S. Reports
336 U.S. 410
S. Ct. citation
69 S. Ct. 616
LEXIS citation
1949 U.S. LEXIS 3040

How the bench divided

M 8 majorityC 1 concurring

How each justice voted in Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Phipps.
JusticeVote
Harold BurtonMajority
Robert H. JacksonMajority
Felix FrankfurterMajority
Stanley ReedMajority
Hugo BlackMajority
Wiley RutledgeMajority
Frank MurphyMajority
Fred M. VinsonMajority
William O. DouglasSpecial concurrence

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