Skip to main content
Independent · not a government site

1975 term · Burger Court · 9-0

Northern Cheyenne Tribe v. Hollowbreast et al.

425 U.S. 649 · 96 S. Ct. 1793 · 1976 U.S. LEXIS 126

The record

Term
1975
Decided
Issue area
Civil Rights
Vote split
9-0
Winning party
Petitioner
Decision direction
Liberal
Chief Justice
Burger Court
Disposition
Reversed
Docket
75-145
U.S. Reports
425 U.S. 649
S. Ct. citation
96 S. Ct. 1793
LEXIS citation
1976 U.S. LEXIS 126

How the bench divided

M 8 majorityC 1 concurring

How each justice voted in Northern Cheyenne Tribe v. Hollowbreast et al.
JusticeVote
Potter StewartMajority
Thurgood MarshallMajority
William J. BrennanMajority
Byron WhiteMajority
Warren E. BurgerMajority
Lewis F. PowellMajority
William RehnquistMajority
John Paul StevensMajority
Harry BlackmunRegular concurrence

Same issue area

Decisions the Court reached on the same question, nearest in time to this one. Civil Rights accounts for 1,508 of the 9,277 decisions in this dataset.

Browse all Civil Rights decisions →