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Supreme Court cases, October term 2023-2024
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| SCOTUS |
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| Cases by term |
| Judgeships |
| Posts: 9 |
| Judges: 9 |
| Judges |
| Chief: John Roberts |
| Active: Samuel Alito, Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Elena Kagan, Brett Kavanaugh, John Roberts, Sonia Sotomayor, Clarence Thomas |
The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the country and leads the judicial branch of the federal government. It is often referred to by the acronym SCOTUS.[1]
The Supreme Court began hearing cases for the term on October 2, 2023. The court's yearly term begins on the first Monday in October and lasts until the first Monday in October the following year. The court generally releases the majority of its decisions in mid-June.[2]
See the sections below for additional information on the October 2023 term of the Supreme Court of the United States.
- Cases by circuit: This section lists the cases being heard by court of origination (e.g., federal appellate courts, federal district courts, state courts, etc.).
- Cases by sitting: This section lists the cases being heard by date of oral argument.
- Cases by date of opinion: This section lists the cases by the date the court released an opinion.
- Noteworthy court announcements: This section provides details on noteworthy court announcements and emergency appeals.
- Term data: This section provides information on the cases SCOTUS decided, including case names, decisions, vote totals, opinion authors, and courts of origination. It also includes information on SCOTUS case reversal rates.
- Case history: This section provides information on previous SCOTUS terms.
The court agreed to hear 62 cases during its 2023-2024 term.[3] Two cases were dismissed from the docket.[4]
The U.S. Supreme Court issued 60 opinions during the term. Between the 2007 and 2022 October terms, SCOTUS released opinions in 1,188 cases, averaging 74.3 cases per year.
Cases by circuit
Article III, Section 2 of the United States Constitution establishes the court's jurisdiction. The court has original jurisdiction—when it is the first and only to hear a case—and appellate jurisdiction—when it reviews the decisions of lower courts.[5]
Parties petition SCOTUS to hear a case if they are not satisfied with a lower court's decision. The parties petition the court to grant a writ of certiorari. A writ of certiorari is an "order issued by the U.S. Supreme Court directing the lower court to transmit records for a case it will hear on appeal."[5][6]
Circuits
1st Circuit
2nd Circuit
- Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC
- Harrington v. Purdue Pharma L.P.
- Macquarie Infrastructure Corp. v. Moab Partners, L.P.
- Bissonnette v. LePage Bakeries Park St., LLC
- McIntosh v. United States
- Cantero v. Bank of America
- National Rifle Association of America v. Vullo
3rd Circuit
- Great Lakes Insurance SE v. Raiders Retreat Realty Co., LLC
- Brown v. United States (Consolidated with Jackson v. United States)
- Department of Agriculture Rural Development Rural Housing Service v. Kirtz
- Wilkinson v. Garland
4th Circuit
5th Circuit
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited
- Campos-Chaves v. Garland (Consolidated w/ Garland v. Singh)
- Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy
- United States v. Rahimi
- Devillier v. Texas
- NetChoice, LLC v. Paxton
- Gonzalez v. Trevino
- Murthy v. Missouri
- Garland v. Cargill
- Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (Consolidated w/ Danco Laboratories, L.L.C. v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine)
6th Circuit
7th Circuit
8th Circuit
- Pulsifer v. United States
- Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, Missouri
- Corner Post, Inc. v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
- Connelly v. Internal Revenue Service
9th Circuit
- O’Connor-Ratcliff v. Garnier
- Moore v. United States
- Federal Bureau of Investigation v. Fikre
- Coinbase, Inc. v. Suski
- Diaz v. United States
- Becerra v. San Carlos Apache Tribe (consolidated with Becerra v. Northern Arapaho Tribe)
- Thornell v. Jones
- Moyle v. United States
- Department of State v. Muñoz
- City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson
- Smith v. Spizzirri
10th Circuit
11th Circuit
D.C. Circuit
- Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo
- Carnahan v. Maloney
- Fischer v. United States
- Ohio v. Environmental Protection Agency
- Trump v. United States
Federal Circuit
Armed Forces
- No cases originating from this circuit have yet been announced.
State and district courts
- Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP
- McElrath v. Georgia
- Smith v. Arizona
- Sheetz v. County of El Dorado, California
- Trump v. Anderson
Original jurisdiction
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Geographic boundaries
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Cases by sitting
SCOTUS' term is divided into sittings, when the justices hear cases.[8]
October sitting
October 2, 2023
October 3, 2023
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited
October 4, 2023
October 10, 2023
October 11, 2023
November sitting
October 30, 2023
October 31, 2023
November 1, 2023
November 6, 2023
November 7, 2023
November 8, 2023
December sitting
November 27, 2023
- Brown v. United States (Consolidated with Jackson v. United States)
November 28, 2023
November 29, 2023
December 4, 2023
December 5, 2023
December 6, 2023
January sitting
January 8, 2024
- Campos-Chaves v. Garland (Consolidated w/ Garland v. Singh)
- Federal Bureau of Investigation v. Fikre
January 9, 2024
- Sheetz v. County of El Dorado, California
- Office of the United States Trustee v. John Q. Hammons Fall 2006, LLC
January 10, 2024
January 16, 2024
January 17, 2024
February sitting
February 8, 2024
February 20, 2024
- Corner Post, Inc. v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
- Bissonnette v. LePage Bakeries Park St., LLC
February 21, 2024
February 26, 2024
February 27, 2024
February 28, 2024
March sitting
March 18, 2024
March 19, 2024
March 20, 2024
March 25, 2024
- Becerra v. San Carlos Apache Tribe (consolidated with Becerra v. Northern Arapaho Tribe)
- Harrow v. Department of Defense
March 26, 2024
- Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (consolidated with Danco Laboratories, L.L.C. v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine)
March 27, 2024
April sitting
April 15, 2024
April 16, 2024
April 17, 2024
April 22, 2024
April 23, 2024
April 24, 2024
April 25, 2024
Cases removed from argument calendar
Cases by date of opinion
Ballotpedia will update this section once SCOTUS issues opinions for the 2023-2024 term.
December
December 5, 2023
February
February 8, 2024
- Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC
- Department of Agriculture Rural Development Rural Housing Service v. Kirtz
February 21, 2024
March
March 4, 2024
March 15, 2024
March 19, 2024
April
April 12, 2024
- Bissonnette v. LePage Bakeries Park St., LLC
- Macquarie Infrastructure Corp. v. Moab Partners, L.P.
- Sheetz v. County of El Dorado, California
April 16, 2024
April 17, 2024
May
May 9, 2024
May 16, 2024
- Harrow v. Department of Defense
- Smith v. Spizzirri
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited
May 23, 2024
- Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP
- Coinbase, Inc. v. Suski
- Brown v. United States (Consolidated with Jackson v. United States)
May 30, 2024
June
June 6, 2024
- Becerra v. San Carlos Apache Tribe (consolidated with Becerra v. Northern Arapaho Tribe)
- Connelly v. Internal Revenue Service
- Truck Insurance Exchange v. Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc.
June 13, 2024
- Vidal v. Elster
- Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (Consolidated w/ Danco Laboratories, L.L.C. v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine)
- Starbucks Corp. v. McKinney
June 14, 2024
- Campos-Chaves v. Garland (Consolidated w/ Garland v. Singh)
- Office of the United States Trustee v. John Q. Hammons Fall 2006, LLC
- Garland v. Cargill
June 20, 2024
- Diaz v. United States
- Chiaverini v. City of Napoleon, Ohio
- Moore v. United States
- Gonzalez v. Trevino
June 21, 2024
- United States v. Rahimi
- Smith v. Arizona
- Erlinger v. United States
- Department of State v. Muñoz
- Texas v. New Mexico and Colorado
June 26, 2024
June 27, 2024
- Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy
- Harrington v. Purdue Pharma L.P.
- Ohio v. Environmental Protection Agency
- Moyle v. United States
June 28, 2024
- Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo
- Fischer v. United States
- City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson
- Relentless, Inc. v. Department of Commerce
July
July 1, 2024
- Corner Post, Inc. v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
- Moody v. NetChoice, LLC
- Trump v. United States
- NetChoice, LLC v. Paxton
Noteworthy court announcements
Court declines to intervene in emergency docket redistricting request
- See also: Allen v. Milligan
- September 26, 2023: In response to an emergency docket request from the State of Alabama, SCOTUS declined to intervene in the redrawing of the Alabama U.S. congressional districts. Therefore, redistricting measures in Alabama would continue with court-appointed experts drawing new maps that include a second majority-Black district.[9]
Court agrees to decide if Donald Trump qualifies for the Colorado ballot
- January 5, 2024: The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision barring Trump from the state’s primary ballot. Oral arguments in the case took place on February 8, 2024.[10]
Term data
2023-2024 term data
The 2023-2024 term of the Supreme Court of the United States began on October 2, 2023. The following table provides data on the decisions the court issued during the 2023-2024 term.
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:[12]
- 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:[13]
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.[12]
Justice alignment
The following justice alignment table shows justice agreement rates for non-unanimous rulings during the 2023-2024 term. The data does not include agreements in part.
- The highest agreement rate was 94 percent, which applied to the following pairing:
- Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan
- Chief Justice John Roberts had the highest average agreement rate with each of the other eight justices at 61 percent
- The lowest agreement rate was 10 percent, which applied to the following pairings:
- Justices Clarence Thomas and Sonia Sotomayor
- Justices Clarence Thomas and Elena Kagan
- Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan had the lowest average agreement rates with each of the other eight justices at 43 percent
Percentage of 5-4 votes
Percentage of 6-3 votes
Of the 62 cases decided in the 2023 term, 21 had a 6-3 vote. Eleven of those decisions had John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Clarence Thomas in the majority and Ketanji Brown Jackson, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor in the minority.
Percentage of 7-2 or 6-2 votes
Percentage of 8-1, 8-0, or 7-1 votes
Percentage of 9-0 votes
SCOTUS case reversal rates
From 2007 to the most recently completed term, the Supreme Court of the United States released opinions in 1,250 cases, averaging 73.5 cases per year. During that period, the Supreme Court reversed a lower court decision 891 times (71.3 percent) and affirmed a lower court decision 347 times (27.8 percent). The vast majority of cases heard by the high court originate in a lower court, such as the 13 appellate circuit courts, state-level courts, and federal district courts. Between 2007 and 2023, the high court decided more cases originating from the Ninth Circuit (243) than from any other circuit.
| SCOTUS decisions by circuit, 2023 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Court | Decided | Affirmed | Reversed | Percent Reversed |
| First Circuit | 2 | 0 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Second Circuit | 7 | 1 | 6 | 85.7% |
| Third Circuit | 3 | 1 | 2 | 66.7% |
| Fourth Circuit | 1 | 0 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Fifth Circuit | 10 | 3 | 8 | 80.0% |
| Sixth Circuit | 3 | 0 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Seventh Circuit | 2 | 0 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Eighth Circuit | 4 | 2 | 2 | 50.0% |
| Ninth Circuit | 10 | 4 | 5 | 50.0% |
| Tenth Circuit | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50.0% |
| Eleventh Circuit | 4 | 3 | 1 | 25.0% |
| D.C. Circuit | 5 | 0 | 3 | 60.0% |
| Federal Circuit | 3 | 0 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Armed Forces | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0% |
| State Court | 4 | 0 | 4 | 100.0% |
| U.S. District Court | 1 | 0 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Total | 62 | 15 | 44 | 70.96% |
Between the 2007 and 2023 terms, SCOTUS released opinions in 1250 cases. Of those, it reversed a lower court decision 891 times (71.3%) while affirming a lower court decision 347 times (27.8%%). In that time period, SCOTUS decided more cases originating from the Ninth Circuit (243) than from any other circuit. The next-most was the Fifth Circuit, which had 105 decisions. During that span, SCOTUS overturned a greater number of cases originating from the Ninth Circuit (192), but it overturned a higher percentage of cases originating in the Sixth Circuit (80.7%).
For more historical term data, click here.
Active justices
- See also: Supreme Court of the United States
| Judge | Born | Home | Appointed by | Active | Preceeded | Law school | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Associate justice Samuel Alito | April 1, 1950 | Trenton, N.J. | W. Bush | January 31, 2006 - Present | Sandra Day O'Connor | Yale Law School, 1975 |
 | Chief justice John Roberts | January 27, 1955 | Buffalo, N.Y. | W. Bush | September 29, 2005 - Present | William Rehnquist | Harvard Law, 1979 |
 | Associate justice Clarence Thomas | June 23, 1948 | Savannah, Ga. | H.W. Bush | July 1, 1991 - Present | Thurgood Marshall | Yale Law School, 1974 |
 | Associate justice Elena Kagan | April 28, 1960 | New York, N.Y. | Obama | August 7, 2010 - Present | John Paul Stevens | Harvard Law School, J.D., 1986 |
 | Associate justice Sonia Sotomayor | June 25, 1954 | New York, N.Y. | Obama | August 6, 2009 - Present | David Souter | Yale Law School, 1979 |
 | Associate justice Neil Gorsuch | August 29, 1967 | Denver, Colo. | Trump | April 10, 2017 - Present | Antonin Scalia | Harvard Law School, 1991 |
 | Associate justice Brett Kavanaugh | February 12, 1965 | Washington, D.C. | Trump | October 6, 2018 - Present | Anthony Kennedy | Yale Law School, 1990 |
 | Associate justice Amy Coney Barrett | 1972 | New Orleans, La. | Trump | October 26, 2020 - Present | Ruth Bader Ginsburg | Notre Dame Law School, 1997 |
 | Associate justice Ketanji Brown Jackson | September 14, 1970 | Washington, D.C. | Biden | June 30, 2022 - Present | Stephen Breyer | Harvard Law School, 1996 |
Case history
2022-2023 term
In the 2022-2023 term, SCOTUS agreed to consider 60 cases. Click here for more information.
2021-2022 term
In the 2021-2022 term, SCOTUS agreed to consider 68 cases. Click here for more information.
2020-2021 term
In the 2020-2021 term, SCOTUS agreed to consider 62 cases. Click here for more information.
2019-2020 term
In the 2019-2020 term, the court agreed to consider 74 cases. Click here for more information.
2018-2019 term
In the 2018-2019 term, SCOTUS agreed to consider 75 cases. The court heard oral argument in 72 cases and decided three cases without argument. Click here for more information.
2017-2018 term
In the 2017-2018 term, SCOTUS agreed to hear 71 cases. Ultimately, the justices heard argument in 69 of those cases. Click here for more information.
2016-2017 term
In the 2016-2017 term, SCOTUS agreed to hear 71 cases. Click here for more information.
The court delivered 61 opinions.
- Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Breyer, Ginsburg, and Kennedy, wrote the most opinions—eight each.
- Justices Alito, Kagan, Sotomayor, and Thomas each wrote seven opinions.
- Justice Gorsuch wrote one opinion.
The court delivered eight per curiam opinions.
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ The New York Times, "On Language; Potus and Flotus," October 12, 1997
- ↑ SupremeCourt.gov, "The Supreme Court at Work: The Term and Caseload," accessed March 16, 2023
- ↑ Consolidated cases are counted as one case.
- ↑ Supreme Court of the United States, "SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES GRANTED & NOTED LIST OCTOBER TERM 2023 CASES FOR ARGUMENT," accessed February 9, 2024
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Administrative Office of the United States Courts, "Supreme Court Procedures," accessed March 16, 2023
- ↑ Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, "Understanding the Federal Courts," accessed March 16, 2023
- ↑ Consolidated cases are counted as one case.
- ↑ Supreme Court of the United States, "The Court and Its Procedures," accessed January 24, 2022
- ↑ SCOTUSBlog, "Court denies Alabama’s request to use voting map with only one majority-Black district," accessed September 27, 2023
- ↑ SCOTUSBlog, "Supreme Court agrees to hear Trump plea to remain on Colorado ballot," accessed January 5, 2024
- ↑ Justice Samuel Alito recused himself from the case.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Washington University Law, "Online Code Book - Formal Alteration of Precedent," accessed March 18, 2025
- ↑ Washington University Law, "2024 Supreme Court Database, Version 2024 Release 1," October 1, 2024
