Skip to main content
Independent · not a government site

1965 term · Warren Court · 6-3

Motorlease Corp. v. United States.

383 U.S. 573 · 86 S. Ct. 1076 · 1966 U.S. LEXIS 2970

The record

Term
1965
Decided
Issue area
Federal Taxation
Vote split
6-3
Winning party
Petitioner
Decision direction
Conservative
Chief Justice
Warren Court
Disposition
Reversed
Docket
24
U.S. Reports
383 U.S. 573
S. Ct. citation
86 S. Ct. 1076
LEXIS citation
1966 U.S. LEXIS 2970

How the bench divided

M 6 majorityD 3 dissenting

How each justice voted in Motorlease Corp. v. United States.
JusticeVote
John M. Harlan IIMajority
William O. DouglasMajority
Potter StewartMajority
William J. BrennanMajority
Earl WarrenMajority
Abe FortasMajority
Hugo BlackDissent
Byron WhiteDissent
Tom C. ClarkDissent

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 →