1985 term · Burger Court · 8-1
Lanier v. South Carolina
474 U.S. 25 · 106 S. Ct. 297 · 1985 U.S. LEXIS 138
The record
- Term
- 1985
- Decided
- Issue area
- Criminal Procedure
- Vote split
- 8-1
- Winning party
- Petitioner
- Decision direction
- Liberal
- Chief Justice
- Burger Court
- Disposition
- Vacated and remanded
- Docket
- 85-5260
- U.S. Reports
- 474 U.S. 25
- S. Ct. citation
- 106 S. Ct. 297
- LEXIS citation
- 1985 U.S. LEXIS 138
How the bench divided
MMMMMMCCD
M 6 majorityC 2 concurringD 1 dissenting
| Justice | Vote |
|---|---|
| Warren E. Burger | Majority |
| William J. Brennan | Majority |
| Byron White | Majority |
| Harry Blackmun | Majority |
| Lewis F. Powell | Majority |
| John Paul Stevens | Majority |
| William Rehnquist | Special concurrence |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | Special concurrence |
| Thurgood Marshall | Jurisdictional 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.
Miller v. Fenton, Superintendent, Rahway State Prison, et al.
United States v. Mechanik et al.
United States v. Gouveia et al.
Wyrick, Warden, Missouri State Penitentiary v. Fields
United States et al. v. Rylander et al.
United States v. Eight Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($ 8,850) in United States Currency