The Burger Court (1969–86)Introduction | 
            
                    What was unique about changes on the Burger Court? | 
                
The Burger Court is the only collection of justices in Supreme Court history (not including the new-in-2005 Roberts Court) in which changes on the bench resulted only from the retirement of a justice. Every other Court from the Marshall Court to the Rehnquist Court had justices who died while still serving on the bench.
