Skip to main content
Independent · not a government site

1965 term · Warren Court · 5-4

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People et al. v. Overstreet

384 U.S. 118 · 86 S. Ct. 1306 · 1966 U.S. LEXIS 2833

The record

Term
1965
Decided
Issue area
First Amendment
Vote split
5-4
Winning party
Respondent
Decision direction
Conservative
Chief Justice
Warren Court
Disposition
Petition denied/appeal dismissed
Docket
505
U.S. Reports
384 U.S. 118
S. Ct. citation
86 S. Ct. 1306
LEXIS citation
1966 U.S. LEXIS 2833

How the bench divided

M 5 majorityD 4 dissenting

How each justice voted in National Association for the Advancement of Colored People et al. v. Overstreet.
JusticeVote
John M. Harlan IIMajority
Hugo BlackMajority
Potter StewartMajority
Byron WhiteMajority
Tom C. ClarkMajority
William O. DouglasDissent
William J. BrennanDissent
Earl WarrenDissent
Abe FortasDissent

Same issue area

Decisions the Court reached on the same question, nearest in time to this one. First Amendment accounts for 703 of the 9,277 decisions in this dataset.

Browse all First Amendment decisions →