Skip to main content
Independent · not a government site

1959 term · Warren Court · 7-2

Hudson v. North Carolina

363 U.S. 697 · 80 S. Ct. 1314 · 1960 U.S. LEXIS 919

The record

Term
1959
Decided
Issue area
Criminal Procedure
Vote split
7-2
Winning party
Petitioner
Decision direction
Liberal
Chief Justice
Warren Court
Disposition
Reversed
Docket
466
U.S. Reports
363 U.S. 697
S. Ct. citation
80 S. Ct. 1314
LEXIS citation
1960 U.S. LEXIS 919

How the bench divided

M 7 majorityD 2 dissenting

How each justice voted in Hudson v. North Carolina.
JusticeVote
John M. Harlan IIMajority
Hugo BlackMajority
William O. DouglasMajority
Potter StewartMajority
William J. BrennanMajority
Earl WarrenMajority
Felix FrankfurterMajority
Tom C. ClarkDissent
Charles E. WhittakerDissent

Same issue area

Decisions the Court reached on the same question, nearest in time to this one. Criminal Procedure accounts for 2,091 of the 9,277 decisions in this dataset.

Browse all Criminal Procedure decisions →