Skip to main content
Independent · not a government site

1963 term · Warren Court · 9-0

Fallen v. United States

378 U.S. 139 · 84 S. Ct. 1689 · 1964 U.S. LEXIS 819

The record

Term
1963
Decided
Issue area
Criminal Procedure
Vote split
9-0
Winning party
Petitioner
Decision direction
Liberal
Chief Justice
Warren Court
Disposition
Reversed and remanded
Docket
210
U.S. Reports
378 U.S. 139
S. Ct. citation
84 S. Ct. 1689
LEXIS citation
1964 U.S. LEXIS 819

How the bench divided

M 5 majorityC 4 concurring

How each justice voted in Fallen v. United States.
JusticeVote
Hugo BlackMajority
William O. DouglasMajority
Byron WhiteMajority
Earl WarrenMajority
Arthur GoldbergMajority
John M. Harlan IISpecial concurrence
Potter StewartSpecial concurrence
William J. BrennanSpecial concurrence
Tom C. ClarkSpecial concurrence

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 →