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Supreme Court cases, October term 2017-2018

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The Supreme Court of the United States began its October 2017 term on Monday, October 2, 2017. The court had a full complement of nine justices at the start of the term. Justice Neil Gorsuch sat for arguments during the April sitting of the court's previous term, this was his first full term on the court. The justices agreed to hear 71 cases this term but only heard argument in 69 of those cases.

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The circuits

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Cases by circuit

Circuits

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2nd Circuit

3rd Circuit

4th Circuit

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8th Circuit

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11th Circuit

D.C. Circuit

Federal Circuit

Armed Forces

U.S. district courts

District of Columbia courts

State courts

Original jurisdiction

Cases by sitting

Sitting

October sitting

October 2, 2017

October 3, 2017

October 4, 2017

October 10, 2017

October 11, 2017

November sitting

October 30, 2017

October 31, 2017

November 1, 2017

November 6, 2017

November 7, 2017

December sitting

November 27, 2017

November 28, 2017

November 29, 2017

December 4, 2017

December 5, 2017

December 6, 2017

January sitting

January 8, 2018

January 9, 2018

January 10, 2018

January 16, 2018

January 17, 2018

February sitting

February 20, 2018

February 21, 2018

February 26, 2018

February 27, 2018

February 28, 2018

March sitting

March 19, 2018

March 20, 2018

March 21, 2018

March 26, 2018

March 27, 2018

March 28, 2018

April sitting

April 16, 2018

April 17, 2018

April 18, 2018

April 23, 2018

April 24, 2018

April 25, 2018

Cases moved to next term

Dismissed cases

Where did the cases come from?

List of argued cases - 2017 Term
Court Number of cases
United States Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit 1
United States Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit 5
United States Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit 4
United States Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit 0
United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit 5
United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit 3
United States Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit 7
United States Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit 3
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit 12
United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit 3
United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit 4
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit 4
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit 3
United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces 3
U.S. district courts 4
District of Columbia courts 1
State/commonwealth courts 7
Original jurisdiction 2
Totals (argued cases) 71
Source: Supreme Court of the United States


Term data

Precedent alteration

The Washington University in St. Louis Law School (WashU Law) maintains a database of Supreme Court cases. In its database, a case is considered to have formally altered existing Court precedent if at least one of the following applies to the case:[1]

  • The majority opinion of the Court explicitly references a previous case and overturns its precedent;
  • A dissent contains persuasive evidence that the opinion of the Court, despite not mentioning overturned precedent, has overruled a previous precedent set by the Court;
  • If the Court, in a later decision, references an earlier decision that the Court made, and states that said earlier decision was a case overturning precedent, that earlier case will be marked as altering precedent;
  • Or, the majority opinion mentions precedent and states that it "disapproved" of the decision, or that the precedent is "no longer good law."

The following table details for each term of The Roberts Court how many and which cases were found to formally alter precedent:[2]

SCOTUS precedent alteration during the Roberts Court
Court term # of cases altering precedent % of cases altering precedent List of cases altering precedent
2023-2024 1 of 62 1.6% Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo
2022-2023 1 of 62 1.6% Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard
2021-2022 3 of 69 4.3% Shinn v. Ramirez / Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization / Kennedy v. Bremerton School District
2020-2021 1 of 74 1.4% Edwards v. Vannoy
2019-2020 1 of 74 1.4% Ramos v. Louisiana
2018-2019 4 of 78 5.1% Knick v. Township of Scott, Pennsylvania / Herrera v. Wyoming / Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt / Rucho v. Common Cause
2017-2018 3 of 79 3.8% Trump v. Hawaii / South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. / Janus v. AFSCME
2016-2017 0 of 81 0.0% N/A
2015-2016 1 of 84 1.2% Hurst v. Florida
2014-2015 2 of 79 2.5% Johnson v. United States / Obergefell v. Hodges
2013-2014 0 of 75 0.0% N/A
2012-2013 1 of 79 1.3% Allen v. United States
2011-2012 0 of 80 0.0% N/A
2010-2011 1 of 86 1.2% Bond v. United States
2009-2010 2 of 94 2.1% McDonald v. Chicago / Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
2008-2009 2 of 83 2.4% Jesse Jay Montejo v. Louisiana / Cordell Pearson, et al. v. Afton Callahan
2007-2008 0 of 74 0.0% N/A
2006-2007 5 of 75 6.7% Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General v. Leroy Carhart, et al. / Bell Atlantic Corporation, et al. v. William Twombly, et al. / Keith Bowles v. Harry Russell, Warden / Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School Dist. No. 1 / Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc.
2005-2006 2 of 87 2.3% Illinois Tool Works Inc., et al. v. Independent Ink, Inc. / Central Virginia Community College, et al. v. Bernard Katz

Note that the WashU Law database does not state how many precedents were overturned with each decision. As such, a case listed as altering a precedent may have affected multiple precedents.

Additionally, if the Court only distinguished a precedent, it was not classified as a precedent-altering case. Distinguishing a precedent involves clarifying a previous precedent rather than changing it.[1]

Justice alignment

The following justice alignment table shows justice agreement rates for non-unanimous rulings during the 2017-2018 term. The data does not include agreements in part.

  • Justice Anthony Kennedy had the highest average agreement rate with each of the other eight justices at 73 percent
  • Justice Sonia Sotomayor had the lowest average agreement rate with each of the other eight justices at 67 percent

See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Washington University Law, "Online Code Book - Formal Alteration of Precedent," accessed March 18, 2025
  2. ↑ Washington University Law, "2024 Supreme Court Database, Version 2024 Release 1," October 1, 2024


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