Skip to main content
Independent · not a government site

1992 term · Rehnquist Court · 9-0

John Sullivan v. Louisiana

508 U.S. 275 · 113 S. Ct. 2078 · 1993 U.S. LEXIS 3741

The record

Term
1992
Decided
Issue area
Criminal Procedure
Vote split
9-0
Winning party
Petitioner
Decision direction
Liberal
Chief Justice
Rehnquist Court
Disposition
Reversed and remanded
Docket
92-5129
U.S. Reports
508 U.S. 275
S. Ct. citation
113 S. Ct. 2078
LEXIS citation
1993 U.S. LEXIS 3741

How the bench divided

M 8 majorityC 1 concurring

How each justice voted in John Sullivan v. Louisiana.
JusticeVote
Byron WhiteMajority
Harry BlackmunMajority
John Paul StevensMajority
Sandra Day O'ConnorMajority
Antonin ScaliaMajority
Anthony KennedyMajority
David SouterMajority
Clarence ThomasMajority
William RehnquistRegular concurrence

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 →