Skip to main content
Independent · not a government site

1959 term · Warren Court · 8-1

Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Gillette Motor Transport, Inc.

364 U.S. 130 · 80 S. Ct. 1497 · 1960 U.S. LEXIS 1972

The record

Term
1959
Decided
Issue area
Federal Taxation
Vote split
8-1
Winning party
Petitioner
Decision direction
Liberal
Chief Justice
Warren Court
Disposition
Reversed
Docket
359
U.S. Reports
364 U.S. 130
S. Ct. citation
80 S. Ct. 1497
LEXIS citation
1960 U.S. LEXIS 1972

How the bench divided

M 8 majorityD 1 dissenting

How each justice voted in Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Gillette Motor Transport, Inc.
JusticeVote
John M. Harlan IIMajority
Hugo BlackMajority
Potter StewartMajority
William J. BrennanMajority
Earl WarrenMajority
Tom C. ClarkMajority
Felix FrankfurterMajority
Charles E. WhittakerMajority
William O. DouglasDissent

Same issue area

Decisions the Court reached on the same question, nearest in time to this one. Federal Taxation accounts for 319 of the 9,277 decisions in this dataset.

Browse all Federal Taxation decisions →