Skip to main content
Independent · not a government site

1967 term · Warren Court · 5-4

Johnson v. Florida

391 U.S. 596 · 88 S. Ct. 1713 · 1968 U.S. LEXIS 1475

The record

Term
1967
Decided
Issue area
Due Process
Vote split
5-4
Winning party
Petitioner
Decision direction
Liberal
Chief Justice
Warren Court
Disposition
Reversed
Docket
1393 M
U.S. Reports
391 U.S. 596
S. Ct. citation
88 S. Ct. 1713
LEXIS citation
1968 U.S. LEXIS 1475

How the bench divided

M 5 majorityD 4 dissenting

How each justice voted in Johnson v. Florida.
JusticeVote
William O. DouglasMajority
Thurgood MarshallMajority
William J. BrennanMajority
Earl WarrenMajority
Abe FortasMajority
John M. Harlan IIDissent
Hugo BlackDissent
Potter StewartDissent
Byron WhiteDissent

Same issue area

Decisions the Court reached on the same question, nearest in time to this one. Due Process accounts for 359 of the 9,277 decisions in this dataset.

Browse all Due Process decisions →