WILLIAMS v. UNITED STATES (1971)

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WILLIAMS v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1970
Important Dates
Argued: October 21, 1970
Decided: April 5, 1971
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-2
Judgment of the court
Byron White
Majority
Harry Blackmun • Warren Burger
Concurring
Hugo Black • William Brennan • Potter Stewart
Dissenting
John Harlan II • Thurgood Marshall

WILLIAMS v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 5, 1971. The case was argued before the court on October 21, 1970.

In a 6-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Arizona U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1970s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Burger Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Retroactivity (of newly announced or newly enacted constitutional or statutory rights)
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 401 U.S. 646
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Judgment of the Court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Byron White

These data points were accessed from The Supreme Court Database, which also attempts to categorize the ideological direction of the court's ruling in each case. This case's ruling was categorized as conservative.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Harold J. Spaeth, Lee Epstein, et al., "2023 Supreme Court Database, Version 2023 Release 1 and SCDB Legacy 07," accessed March 21, 2024
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