Skip to main content
Independent · not a government site

2001 term · Rehnquist Court · 9-0

Kennedy D. Kirk v. Louisiana

536 U.S. 635 · 122 S. Ct. 2458 · 2002 U.S. LEXIS 4682

The record

Term
2001
Decided
Issue area
Criminal Procedure
Vote split
9-0
Winning party
Petitioner
Decision direction
Liberal
Chief Justice
Rehnquist Court
Disposition
Reversed and remanded
Docket
01-8419
U.S. Reports
536 U.S. 635
S. Ct. citation
122 S. Ct. 2458
LEXIS citation
2002 U.S. LEXIS 4682

How the bench divided

M 9 majority

How each justice voted in Kennedy D. Kirk v. Louisiana.
JusticeVote
William RehnquistMajority
John Paul StevensMajority
Sandra Day O'ConnorMajority
Antonin ScaliaMajority
Anthony KennedyMajority
David SouterMajority
Clarence ThomasMajority
Ruth Bader GinsburgMajority
Stephen BreyerMajority

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 →