Skip to main content
Independent · not a government site

1964 term · Warren Court · 9-0

Watts et al. v. Seward School Board et al.

381 U.S. 126 · 85 S. Ct. 1321 · 1965 U.S. LEXIS 2291

The record

Term
1964
Decided
Issue area
Judicial Power
Vote split
9-0
Winning party
Petitioner
Decision direction
Liberal
Chief Justice
Warren Court
Disposition
Vacated and remanded
Docket
923
U.S. Reports
381 U.S. 126
S. Ct. citation
85 S. Ct. 1321
LEXIS citation
1965 U.S. LEXIS 2291

How the bench divided

M 9 majority

How each justice voted in Watts et al. v. Seward School Board et al.
JusticeVote
John M. Harlan IIMajority
Hugo BlackMajority
William O. DouglasMajority
Potter StewartMajority
William J. BrennanMajority
Byron WhiteMajority
Earl WarrenMajority
Tom C. ClarkMajority
Arthur GoldbergMajority

Same issue area

Decisions the Court reached on the same question, nearest in time to this one. Judicial Power accounts for 1,258 of the 9,277 decisions in this dataset.

Browse all Judicial Power decisions →