Skip to main content
Independent · not a government site

1955 term · Warren Court · 7-1

Squire, Collector of Internal Revenue, v. Capoeman et ux.

351 U.S. 1 · 76 S. Ct. 611 · 1956 U.S. LEXIS 1795

The record

Term
1955
Decided
Issue area
Civil Rights
Vote split
7-1
Winning party
Respondent
Decision direction
Liberal
Chief Justice
Warren Court
Disposition
Affirmed
Docket
134
U.S. Reports
351 U.S. 1
S. Ct. citation
76 S. Ct. 611
LEXIS citation
1956 U.S. LEXIS 1795

How the bench divided

M 7 majorityD 1 dissenting? 1 no vote recorded

How each justice voted in Squire, Collector of Internal Revenue, v. Capoeman et ux.
JusticeVote
Hugo BlackMajority
William O. DouglasMajority
Earl WarrenMajority
Tom C. ClarkMajority
Felix FrankfurterMajority
Harold BurtonMajority
Sherman MintonMajority
Stanley ReedDissent
John M. Harlan IIUnknown

Same issue area

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.

Browse all Civil Rights decisions →