2010 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States

The 2010 term of the Supreme Court of the United States began October 4, 2010 and concluded October 1, 2011. The table illustrates which opinion was filed by each justice in each case and which justices joined each opinion.

Table key

Delivered the Court's opinion Joined the Court's opinion Filed a concurrence Joined a concurrence Filed a dissent Joined a dissent Filed a concurrence/dissent Joined a concurrence/dissent Did not participate in the decision Decisions that do not note an argument date were decided without oral argument. Decisions that do not note a Justice delivering the Court's opinion are per curiam. Multiple concurrences and dissents within a case are numbered, with joining votes numbered accordingly. Justices frequently join multiple opinions in a single case; each vote is subdivided accordingly. An asterisk ( * ) in the Court's opinion denotes that it was only a majority in part or a plurality. An asterisk in a joining vote denotes that the justice joined it only in part. A dash ( - ) denotes that the Justice concurred or dissented without filing a separate opinion.

2010 term opinions

#	Case name and citation	Argued	Decided	Roberts	Scalia	Kennedy	Thomas	Ginsburg	Breyer	Alito	Sotomayor	Kagan
1	Wilson v. Corcoran, 562 U.S. ___		November 8, 2010
2	Abbott v. United States, 562 U.S. ___	October 4, 2010	November 15, 2010
3	Los Angeles County v. Humphries, 562 U.S. ___	October 5, 2010	November 30, 2010
4	Costco Wholesale Corp. v. Omega, S.A.,[1] 562 U.S. ___		December 13, 2010
5	Madison County v. Oneida Indian Nation of N. Y., 562 U.S. ___		January 10, 2011
6	Mayo Foundation for Medical Ed. and Research v. United States, 562 U.S. ___	November 8, 2010	January 11, 2011
7	Ransom v. FIA Card Services, N. A., 562 U.S. ___	October 4, 2010	January 11, 2011
8	Harrington v. Richter, 562 U.S. ___	October 12, 2010	January 19, 2011
9	Premo v. Moore, 562 U.S. ___	October 12, 2010	January 19, 2011
10	NASA v. Nelson, 562 U.S. ___	October 5, 2010	January 19, 2011		1		1 2
11	Thompson v. North American Stainless, LP, 562 U.S. ___	December 7, 2010	January 24, 2011
12	Ortiz v. Jordan, 562 U.S. ___	November 1, 2010	January 24, 2011
13	Chase Bank USA, N. A. v. McCoy, 562 U.S. ___	December 8, 2010	January 24, 2011
14	Swarthout v. Cooke, 562 U.S. ___		January 24, 2011
15	Bruesewitz v. Wyeth LLC, 562 U.S. ___	October 12, 2010	February 22, 2011
16	CSX Transportation, Inc. v. Alabama Dept. of Revenue, 562 U.S. ___	November 10, 2010	February 22, 2011
17	Walker v. Martin, 562 U.S. ___	November 29, 2010	February 23, 2011
18	Williamson v. Mazda Motor of America, Inc., 562 U.S. ___	November 3, 2010	February 23, 2011				1				2
19	Michigan v. Bryant, 562 U.S. ___	October 5, 2010	February 28, 2011		1			2
20	FCC v. AT&T Inc., 562 U.S. ___	January 19, 2011	March 1, 2011
21	Staub v. Proctor Hospital, 562 U.S. ___	November 2, 2010	March 1, 2011
22	Henderson v. Shinseki, 562 U.S. ___	December 6, 2010	March 1, 2011
23	Snyder v. Phelps, 562 U.S. ___	October 10, 2010	March 2, 2011
24	Pepper v. United States, 562 U.S. ___	December 6, 2010	March 2, 2011						*	*
25	Skinner v. Switzer, 562 U.S. ___	October 13, 2010	March 7, 2011
26	Wall v. Kholi, 562 U.S. ___	November 29, 2010	March 7, 2011		*
27	Milner v. Department of Navy, 562 U.S. ___	December 1, 2010	March 7, 2011
28	Felkner v. Jackson, 562 U.S. ___		March 21, 2011
29	Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp., 562 U.S. ___	October 13, 2010	March 22, 2011				*
30	Matrixx Initiatives, Inc. v. Siracusano, 562 U.S. ___	January 10, 2011	March 22, 2011
31	Connick v. Thompson, 563 U.S. ___	October 6, 2010	March 29, 2011
32	Astra USA, Inc. v. Santa Clara County, 563 U.S. ___	January 19, 2011	March 29, 2011
33	Tolentino v. New York,[2] 563 U.S. ___		March 29, 2011
34	Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn, 563 U.S. ___	November 3, 2010	April 4, 2011
35	Cullen v. Pinholster, 563 U.S. ___	November 9, 2010	April 4, 2011				*	* *	*	*		* *
36	Virginia Office for Protection and Advocacy v. Stewart, 563 U.S. ___	December 1, 2010	April 19, 2011
37	Sossamon v. Texas, 563 U.S. ___	November 2, 2010	April 20, 2011
38	United States v. Tohono O’odham Nation, 563 U.S. ___	November 1, 2010	April 26, 2011
39	AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, 563 U.S. ___	November 9, 2010	April 27, 2011
40	Montana v. Wyoming, 563 U.S. ___	January 10, 2011	May 2, 2011
41	Bobby v. Mitts, 563 U.S. ___		May 2, 2011
42	Schindler Elevator Corp. v. United States ex rel. Kirk, 563 U.S. ___	March 1, 2011	May 16, 2011
43	CIGNA Corp. v. Amara, 563 U.S. ___	November 30, 2010	May 16, 2011
44	Kentucky v. King, 563 U.S. ___	January 12, 2011	May 16, 2011
45	General Dynamics Corp. v. United States, 563 U.S. ___	January 18, 2011	May 23, 2011
46	Brown v. Plata, 563 U.S. ___	November 30, 2010	May 23, 2011	2	1		1			2
47	Chamber of Commerce of United States of America v. Whiting, 563 U.S. ___	December 8, 2010	May 26, 2011	*			*	1	1		2
48	United States v. Tinklenberg, 563 U.S. February 22, 2011	February 22, 2011	May 26, 2011	*	*		*
49	Fowler v. United States, 563 U.S. ___	March 29, 2011	May 26, 2011
50	Camreta v. Greene, 563 U.S. ___	March 1, 2011	May 26, 2011		1				2		2
51	Ashcroft v. al-Kidd, 563 U.S. ___	March 1, 2011	May 31, 2011			1		1* 2 3	1* 2 3		1* 2 3
52	Global-Tech Appliances, Inc. v. SEB S. A., 563 U.S. ___	February 23, 2011	May 31, 2011
53	Bd. of Trustees of Stanford Univ. v. Roche Molecular Sys., 563 U.S. ___	February 28, 2011	June 6, 2011
54	Erica P. John Fund, Inc. v. Halliburton Co., 563 U.S. ___	April 25, 2011	June 6, 2011
55	McNeill v. United States, 563 U.S. ___	April 25, 2011	June 6, 2011
56	Fox v. Vice, 563 U.S. ___	March 22, 2011	June 6, 2011
57	Sykes v. United States, 564 U.S. ___	January 12, 2011	June 9, 2011		1			2				2
58	Talk America, Inc. v. Michigan Bell Telephone Co., 564 U.S. ___	March 30, 2011	June 9, 2011
59	DePierre v. United States, 564 U.S. ___	February 28, 2011	June 9, 2011		*
60	Microsoft Corp. v. i4i Ltd. Partnership, 564 U.S. ___	April 18, 2011	June 9, 2011		2		1		2	2
61	Nevada Comm’n on Ethics v. Carrigan, 564 U.S. ___	April 27, 2011	June 13, 2011			1				2
62	Janus Capital Group, Inc. v. First Derivative Traders, 564 U.S. ___	December 7, 2010	June 13, 2011
63	United States v. Jicarilla Apache Nation, 564 U.S. ___	April 20, 2011	June 13, 2011
64	Flores-Villar v. United States,[1] 564 U.S. ___		June 13, 2011
65	Bond v. United States, 564 U.S. ___	February 22, 2011	June 16, 2011
66	Davis v. United States, 564 U.S. ___	March 21, 2011	June 16, 2011
67	J. D. B. v. North Carolina, 564 U.S. ___	March 23, 2011	June 16, 2011
68	Smith v. Bayer Corp., 564 U.S. ___	January 18, 2011	June 16, 2011				*
69	Tapia v. United States, 564 U.S. ___	April 18, 2011	June 16, 2011
70	Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes, 564 U.S. ___	March 29, 2011	June 20, 2011					*	*		*	*
71	Borough of Duryea v. Guarnieri, 564 U.S. ___	March 22, 2011	June 20, 2011
72	American Elec. Power Co. v. Connecticut, 564 U.S. ___	April 19, 2011	June 20, 2011
73	Turner v. Rogers, 564 U.S. ___	March 23, 2011	June 20, 2011	*						*
74	Stern v. Marshall, 564 U.S. ___	January 18, 2011	June 23, 2011
75	Freeman v. United States, 564 U.S. ___	February 23, 2011	June 23, 2011			*
76	Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc., 564 U.S. ___	April 26, 2011	June 23, 2011
77	PLIVA, Inc. v. Mensing, 564 U.S. ___	March 30, 2011	June 23, 2011			*	*
78	Bullcoming v. New Mexico, 564 U.S. ___	March 2, 2011	June 23, 2011				*	*			*	*
79	CSX Transp., Inc. v. McBride, 564 U.S. ___	March 28, 2011	June 23, 2011				*	*
80	Arizona Free Enterprise Club's Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett, 564 U.S. ___	March 28, 2011	June 27, 2011
81	Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Assn., 564 U.S. ___	November 2, 2010	June 27, 2011				1		2
82	J. McIntyre Machinery, Ltd. v. Nicastro, 564 U.S. ___	January 11, 2011	June 27, 2011			*
83	Goodyear Dunlop Tires Operations, S. A. v. Brown, 564 U.S. ___	January 11, 2011	June 27, 2011
84	United States v. Juvenile Male, 564 U.S. ___		June 27, 2011
85	Leal Garcia v. Texas, 564 U.S. ___		July 7, 2011
#	Case name and citation	Argued	Decided	Roberts	Scalia	Kennedy	Thomas	Ginsburg	Breyer	Alito	Sotomayor	Kagan

2010 term membership and statistics

This was the sixth term of Chief Justice Roberts' tenure, and the first term for Justice Kagan.

Justice		Appointment history		Agreement with judgment		Opinions filed
Seniority	Name	President	Date confirmed	%	#					Total
Chief Justice	Roberts, JohnJohn Roberts	Bush, George W.George W. Bush	September 29, 2005	91.7%	77/84	8	0	0	3	11
Associate Justice	Scalia, AntoninAntonin Scalia	Reagan, RonaldRonald Reagan	September 26, 1986	87.1%	74/85	10	11	1	6	28
Associate Justice	Kennedy, AnthonyAnthony Kennedy	Reagan, RonaldRonald Reagan	February 18, 1988	94.1%	80/85	11	3	0	3	17
Associate Justice	Thomas, ClarenceClarence Thomas	Bush, George H. W.George H. W. Bush	October 23, 1991	87.1%	74/85	9	8	0	5	22
Associate Justice	Ginsburg, Ruth BaderRuth Bader Ginsburg	Clinton, BillBill Clinton	August 10, 1993	72.9%	62/85	9	7	1	6	23
Associate Justice	Breyer, StephenStephen Breyer	Clinton, BillBill Clinton	August 3, 1994	77.6%	66/85	7	5	1	10	23
Associate Justice	Alito, SamuelSamuel Alito	Bush, George W.George W. Bush	January 31, 2006	87.1%	74/85	7	6	1	4	18
Associate Justice	Sotomayor, SoniaSonia Sotomayor	Obama, BarackBarack Obama	August 6, 2009	81.7%	67/82	7	9	0	6	22
Associate Justice	Kagan, ElenaElena Kagan	Obama, BarackBarack Obama	August 7, 2010	76.8%	43/56	7	0	0	3	10
Notes on statistics: Opinion counts only include the bench opinions listed above; opinions relating to orders or in-chambers opinions are not included. Agreement with the Court's judgment does not guarantee agreement with the reasoning expressed in its opinion. A justice is not considered in agreement if they dissented even in part. Agreement percentages are based only on the listed cases in which a justice participated and are rounded to the nearest one-tenth of one percentage point.						Totals
						75	49	4	46	174

Notes

1. The Court's opinions in Costco Wholesale Corp. v. Omega, S. A., 562 U.S. ___ (2010) and Flores-Villar v. United States, 564 U.S. ___ (2011) noted only that the lower court's judgment was affirmed by an equally divided court.
2. The Court's opinion in Tolentino v. New York, 563 U.S. ___ (2010) was a one-line dismissal of certiorari as improvidently granted.

References

• 2010 Term Opinions of the Court, Supreme Court of the United States, retrieved October 2, 2011.