1975 term · Burger Court · 6-3
Stone, Warden v. Powell
428 U.S. 465 · 96 S. Ct. 3037 · 1976 U.S. LEXIS 86
The record
- Term
- 1975
- Decided
- Issue area
- Criminal Procedure
- Vote split
- 6-3
- Winning party
- Petitioner
- Decision direction
- Conservative
- Chief Justice
- Burger Court
- Disposition
- Reversed
- Docket
- 74-1055
- U.S. Reports
- 428 U.S. 465
- S. Ct. citation
- 96 S. Ct. 3037
- LEXIS citation
- 1976 U.S. LEXIS 86
How the bench divided
MMMMMCDDD
M 5 majorityC 1 concurringD 3 dissenting
| Justice | Vote |
|---|---|
| Potter Stewart | Majority |
| Harry Blackmun | Majority |
| Lewis F. Powell | Majority |
| William Rehnquist | Majority |
| John Paul Stevens | Majority |
| Warren E. Burger | Regular concurrence |
| Thurgood Marshall | Dissent |
| William J. Brennan | Dissent |
| Byron White | Dissent |
Same issue area
More on Criminal Procedure
Decisions the Court reached on the same question, nearest in time to this one. Criminal Procedure accounts for 2,091 of the 9,277 decisions in this dataset.