Skip to main content
Independent · not a government site

1970 term · Burger Court · 5-4

United States v. Randall, Trustee in Bankruptcy

401 U.S. 513 · 91 S. Ct. 991 · 1971 U.S. LEXIS 133

The record

Term
1970
Decided
Issue area
Federal Taxation
Vote split
5-4
Winning party
Respondent
Decision direction
Conservative
Chief Justice
Burger Court
Disposition
Affirmed
Docket
125
U.S. Reports
401 U.S. 513
S. Ct. citation
91 S. Ct. 991
LEXIS citation
1971 U.S. LEXIS 133

How the bench divided

M 5 majorityD 4 dissenting

How each justice voted in United States v. Randall, Trustee in Bankruptcy.
JusticeVote
John M. Harlan IIMajority
William O. DouglasMajority
Thurgood MarshallMajority
William J. BrennanMajority
Byron WhiteMajority
Hugo BlackDissent
Potter StewartDissent
Warren E. BurgerDissent
Harry BlackmunDissent

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 →