Skip to main content
Independent · not a government site

1983 term · Burger Court · 6-3

United States v. Karo et al.

468 U.S. 705 · 104 S. Ct. 3296 · 1984 U.S. LEXIS 148

The record

Term
1983
Decided
Issue area
Criminal Procedure
Vote split
6-3
Winning party
Petitioner
Decision direction
Conservative
Chief Justice
Burger Court
Disposition
Reversed
Docket
83-850
U.S. Reports
468 U.S. 705
S. Ct. citation
104 S. Ct. 3296
LEXIS citation
1984 U.S. LEXIS 148

How the bench divided

M 4 majorityC 2 concurringD 3 dissenting

How each justice voted in United States v. Karo et al.
JusticeVote
Byron WhiteMajority
Warren E. BurgerMajority
Harry BlackmunMajority
Lewis F. PowellMajority
William RehnquistSpecial concurrence
Sandra Day O'ConnorSpecial concurrence
Thurgood MarshallDissent
William J. BrennanDissent
John Paul StevensDissent

Same issue area

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.

Browse all Criminal Procedure decisions →