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Stanley Reed

Democratic appointee: Appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)

Served 1938–1957 · 20 terms

Confirmed by voice vote

Biography

Stanley Forman Reed was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1938 to 1957. He also served as U.S. Solicitor General from 1935 to 1938.

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Ideology over time

Reed and the 23 justices who overlapped with Reed, 1937–1956

−4−20+2+41940194519501955More conservativeMore liberalHarlanBurtonWhittakerFrankfurterR. JacksonMintonReedClarkBrennanWarrenMurphyBlackDouglas
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How to read this

Martin–Quinn scores place each justice on a single liberal–conservative dimension, estimated from their votes across terms, with scores allowed to shift from one term to the next. Higher is more conservative. The shaded band is the credible interval: wider when the record is thin, especially in a justice’s first terms, and narrower as votes accumulate.

Where Reed sits among all justices

Career average, every justice in the data set

−4−20+2+4−1.121.51

Reed’s range across terms

Served alongside Reed

23 justices

Closest career average first. Filled dot: the peer. Ring: Reed.

JusticeTogetherCareer avg
Tom Clark1949–1956career average 0.47 versus Reed at 0.37Felix Frankfurter1938–1956career average 0.52 versus Reed at 0.37Charles Hughes1937–1940career average 0.19 versus Reed at 0.37Robert Jackson1941–1953career average 0.70 versus Reed at 0.37Harlan Stone1937–1945career average 0.01 versus Reed at 0.37James Byrnes1941career average −0.18 versus Reed at 0.37Harold Burton1945–1956career average 1.00 versus Reed at 0.37Frederick Vinson1946–1952career average 1.03 versus Reed at 0.37Sherman Minton1949–1956career average 1.10 versus Reed at 0.37Charles Whittaker1956career average 1.17 versus Reed at 0.37Louis Brandeis1937–1938career average −0.61 versus Reed at 0.37Owen Roberts1937–1944career average 1.52 versus Reed at 0.37George Sutherland1937career average 1.60 versus Reed at 0.37John Harlan1954–1956career average 1.62 versus Reed at 0.37Earl Warren1953–1956career average −1.26 versus Reed at 0.37Wiley Rutledge1942–1948career average −1.42 versus Reed at 0.37Pierce Butler1937–1938career average 2.23 versus Reed at 0.37Benjamin Cardozo1937career average −1.59 versus Reed at 0.37Frank Murphy1939–1948career average −1.59 versus Reed at 0.37Hugo Black1937–1956career average −1.76 versus Reed at 0.37William Brennan1956career average −1.78 versus Reed at 0.37James McReynolds1937–1940career average 3.50 versus Reed at 0.37William Douglas1938–1956career average −4.70 versus Reed at 0.37

How Reed voted

Every argued case Reed took part in, newest first, with how Reed voted in each: with the majority, in dissent, or in an equally divided Court. A Liberal or Conservative tag is the Supreme Court Database’s coding of who prevailed in the case, not a rating of the justices.

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    Data notes

    The Decisions page’s argued cases with this justice’s vote from the Supreme Court Database. “Majority” includes a concurrence; a vote that dissented in part is coded by the side the justice took overall. Cases the justice sat out and equally divided cases are left out of the percentages. “Wrote” means authored an opinion. Source: Supreme Court Database (Spaeth et al.).

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    Scores: Martin, Andrew D. and Kevin M. Quinn. 2002. “Dynamic Ideal Point Estimation via Markov Chain Monte Carlo for the U.S. Supreme Court, 1953–1999.” Political Analysis 10:134–153, from mqscores.wustl.edu. Appointment data: Federal Judicial Center biographical directory. Biographies: Wikipedia, text abridged, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Portraits: public-domain images via Wikimedia Commons.