Skip to main content
Independent · not a government site

1961 term · Warren Court · 5-2

Rudolph et ux. v. United States

370 U.S. 269 · 82 S. Ct. 1277 · 1962 U.S. LEXIS 2296

The record

Term
1961
Decided
Issue area
Federal Taxation
Vote split
5-2
Winning party
Respondent
Decision direction
Liberal
Chief Justice
Warren Court
Disposition
Petition denied/appeal dismissed
Docket
396
U.S. Reports
370 U.S. 269
S. Ct. citation
82 S. Ct. 1277
LEXIS citation
1962 U.S. LEXIS 2296

How the bench divided

M 4 majorityC 1 concurringD 2 dissenting? 2 no vote recorded

How each justice voted in Rudolph et ux. v. United States.
JusticeVote
Potter StewartMajority
William J. BrennanMajority
Earl WarrenMajority
Tom C. ClarkMajority
John M. Harlan IISpecial concurrence
Hugo BlackDissent
William O. DouglasDissent
Byron WhiteUnknown
Felix FrankfurterUnknown

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 →