Skip to main content
Independent · not a government site

1962 term · Warren Court · 7-2

Silver, Doing Business as Municipal Securities Co., et al. v. New York Stock Exchange

373 U.S. 341 · 83 S. Ct. 1246 · 1963 U.S. LEXIS 2628

The record

Term
1962
Decided
Issue area
Economic Activity
Vote split
7-2
Winning party
Petitioner
Decision direction
Liberal
Chief Justice
Warren Court
Disposition
Reversed and remanded
Docket
150
U.S. Reports
373 U.S. 341
S. Ct. citation
83 S. Ct. 1246
LEXIS citation
1963 U.S. LEXIS 2628

How the bench divided

M 6 majorityC 1 concurringD 2 dissenting

How each justice voted in Silver, Doing Business as Municipal Securities Co., et al. v. New York Stock Exchange.
JusticeVote
Hugo BlackMajority
William O. DouglasMajority
William J. BrennanMajority
Byron WhiteMajority
Earl WarrenMajority
Arthur GoldbergMajority
Tom C. ClarkSpecial concurrence
John M. Harlan IIDissent
Potter StewartDissent

Same issue area

Decisions the Court reached on the same question, nearest in time to this one. Economic Activity accounts for 1,819 of the 9,277 decisions in this dataset.

Browse all Economic Activity decisions →