Supreme Court · Chief Justice
Warren Burger
Republican appointee: Appointed by Richard M. Nixon (R)
Served 1969–1986 · 17 terms
Confirmed 74–3
Biography
Warren Earl Burger was an American attorney who served as the 15th chief justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986.
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Ideology over time
Burger and the 12 justices who overlapped with Burger, 1969–1985
- Warren Burger
- 95% credible interval
- Peer, appointed by a Democrat
- Peer, appointed by a Republican
- Court median
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 Burger sits among all justices
Career average, every justice in the data set
Burger’s range across terms
Served alongside Burger
12 justicesClosest career average first. Filled dot: the peer. Ring: Burger.
How Burger voted
Every argued case Burger took part in, newest first, with how Burger 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.
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.).