<Table> <Tr> <Th colspan="2"> Roe v. Wade </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td colspan="2"> Supreme Court of the United States </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th colspan="2"> Argued December 13 , 1971 Reargued October 11 , 1972 Decided January 22 , 1973 </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Full case name </Th> <Td> Jane Roe , et al. v. Henry Wade , District Attorney of Dallas County </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Citations </Th> <Td> 410 U.S. 113 ( more ) 93 S. Ct. 705 ; 35 L. Ed . 2d 147 ; 1973 U.S. LEXIS 159 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Argument </Th> <Td> Oral argument </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Reargument </Th> <Td> Reargument </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Prior history </Th> <Td> Judgment for plaintiffs , injunction denied , 314 F. Supp. 1217 ( N.D. Tex. 1970 ) ; probable jurisdiction noted , 402 U.S. 941 ( 1971 ) ; set for reargument , 408 U.S. 919 ( 1972 ) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Subsequent history </Th> <Td> Rehearing denied , 410 U.S. 959 ( 1973 ) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th colspan="2"> Holding </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td colspan="2"> Texas law making it a crime to assist a woman to get an abortion violated her due process rights . U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas affirmed in part , reversed in part . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th colspan="2"> Court membership </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td colspan="2"> <Dl> <Dt> Chief Justice </Dt> <Dd> Warren E. Burger </Dd> <Dt> Associate Justices </Dt> <Dd> William O. Douglas William J. Brennan Jr . Potter Stewart Byron White Thurgood Marshall Harry Blackmun Lewis F. Powell Jr . William Rehnquist </Dd> </Dl> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th colspan="2"> Case opinions </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Majority </Th> <Td> Blackmun , joined by Burger , Douglas , Brennan , Stewart , Marshall , Powell </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Concurrence </Th> <Td> Burger </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Concurrence </Th> <Td> Douglas </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Concurrence </Th> <Td> Stewart </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Dissent </Th> <Td> White , joined by Rehnquist </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Dissent </Th> <Td> Rehnquist </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th colspan="2"> Laws applied </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td colspan="2"> U.S. Const . Amend . XIV ; Tex . Code Crim . Proc. arts . 1191 -- 94 , 1196 </Td> </Tr> </Table>
who was chief justice when the roe versus wade decision was handed down
Warren E. Burger