1973 term · Burger Court · 9-0
Communist Party of Indiana et al. v. Whitcomb, Governor of Indiana, et al.
414 U.S. 441 · 94 S. Ct. 656 · 1974 U.S. LEXIS 147
The record
- Term
- 1973
- Decided
- Issue area
- First Amendment
- Vote split
- 9-0
- Winning party
- Petitioner
- Decision direction
- Liberal
- Chief Justice
- Burger Court
- Disposition
- Reversed
- Docket
- 72-1040
- U.S. Reports
- 414 U.S. 441
- S. Ct. citation
- 94 S. Ct. 656
- LEXIS citation
- 1974 U.S. LEXIS 147
How the bench divided
MMMMMCCCC
M 5 majorityC 4 concurring
| Justice | Vote |
|---|---|
| William O. Douglas | Majority |
| Potter Stewart | Majority |
| Thurgood Marshall | Majority |
| William J. Brennan | Majority |
| Byron White | Majority |
| Warren E. Burger | Special concurrence |
| Harry Blackmun | Special concurrence |
| Lewis F. Powell | Special concurrence |
| William Rehnquist | Special concurrence |
Same issue area
More on First Amendment
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.