Supreme Court cases, October term 2017-2018

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## Contents

* 1 The circuits
* 2 Cases by circuit
* 2.1 Circuits
* 2.1.1 1st Circuit
* 2.1.2 2nd Circuit
* 2.1.3 3rd Circuit
* 2.1.4 4th Circuit
* 2.1.5 5th Circuit
* 2.1.6 6th Circuit
* 2.1.7 7th Circuit
* 2.1.8 8th Circuit
* 2.1.9 9th Circuit
* 2.1.10 10th Circuit
* 2.1.11 11th Circuit
* 2.1.12 D.C. Circuit
* 2.1.13 Federal Circuit
* 2.1.14 Armed Forces
* 2.1.15 U.S. district courts
* 2.1.16 District of Columbia courts
* 2.1.17 State courts
* 2.1.18 Original jurisdiction
* 3 Cases by sitting
* 3.1 Sitting
* 3.1.1 October sitting
* 3.1.2 November sitting
* 3.1.3 December sitting
* 3.1.4 January sitting
* 3.1.5 February sitting
* 3.1.6 March sitting
* 3.1.7 April sitting
* 3.1.8 Cases moved to next term
* 3.1.9 Dismissed cases
* 4 Where did the cases come from?
* 4.1 Term data
* 4.1.1 Precedent alteration
* 4.1.2 Justice alignment
* 4.2 See also
* 4.3 External links
* 4.4 Footnotes

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.

Use the tabs below to view the court's cases by sitting or by lower court.

## The circuits[edit]

Click on your region to find more information about the court of appeals for your state.

# Cases by circuit[edit]

## Circuits[edit]

### 1st Circuit[edit]

* Pereira v. Sessions

### 2nd Circuit[edit]

* Jesner v. Arab Bank PLC
* Marinello v. United States
* Ohio v. American Express
* United States v. Microsoft
* Animal Science Products v. Hebei Welcome

### 3rd Circuit[edit]

* Byrd v. United States
* Murphy v. NCAA / New Jersey Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association v. NCAA (consolidated)
* Hall v. Hall

### 4th Circuit[edit]

None

### 5th Circuit[edit]

* Ayestas v. Davis
* NLRB v. Murphy Oil
* Rosales-Mireles v. United States
* Lagos v. United States

### 6th Circuit[edit]

* Carpenter v. United States
* Husted v. Randolph Institute
* National Association of Manufacturers v. Department of Defense

### 7th Circuit[edit]

* Epic Systems Corporation v. Lewis
* Hamer v. Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago
* Janus v. AFSCME
* Merit Management Group v. FTI Consulting
* Murphy v. Smith
* Rubin v. Iran
* Wisconsin Central Ltd. v. United States

### 8th Circuit[edit]

* Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky
* Koons v. United States
* Sveen v. Melin

### 9th Circuit[edit]

* Digital Realty Trust v. Somers
* Encino Motorcars LLC v. Navarro (2017)
* Ernst and Young v. Morris
* Jennings v. Rodriguez
* National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra
* Sessions v. Dimaya
* U.S. Bank National Association v. Village at Lakeridge
* China Agritech, Inc. v. Resh
* United States v. Sanchez-Gomez
* Washington v. United States
* Trump v. Hawaii

### 10th Circuit[edit]

* City of Hays, Kansas v. Vogt
* Dahda v. United States
* Chavez-Meza v. United States

### 11th Circuit[edit]

* Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach
* Wilson v. Sellers
* Hughes v. United States
* Lamar, Archer & Cofrin, LLP v. Appling

### D.C. Circuit[edit]

* Class v. United States
* District of Columbia v. Wesby
* Patchak v. Zinke
* Lucia v. SEC

### Federal Circuit[edit]

* Oil States Energy Services v. Greene's Energy Group
* SAS Institute v. Matal
* Westerngeco LLC. v. Ion Geophysical Corp.

### Armed Forces[edit]

* Dalmazzi v. United States/Cox v. United States/Ortiz v. United States (consolidated)

### U.S. district courts[edit]

* Gill v. Whitford
* Benisek v. Lamone
* Abbott v. Perez / Abbott v. Perez (consolidated)

### District of Columbia courts[edit]

* Artis v. District of Columbia

### State courts[edit]

* Collins v. Virginia
* Currier v. Virginia
* Cyan v. Beaver County Employees Retirement Fund
* Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission
* McCoy v. Louisiana
* Upper Skagit Indian Tribe v. Lundgren
* South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc.

### Original jurisdiction[edit]

* Florida v. Georgia
* Texas v. New Mexico

# Cases by sitting[edit]

## Sitting[edit]

### October sitting[edit]

October 2, 2017

* Epic Systems Corporation v. Lewis / NLRB v. Murphy Oil / Ernst and Young v. Morris (consolidated)
* Sessions v. Dimaya

October 3, 2017

* Gill v. Whitford
* Jennings v. Rodriguez

October 4, 2017

* District of Columbia v. Wesby
* Class v. United States

October 10, 2017

* Hamer v. Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago

October 11, 2017

* National Association of Manufacturers v. Department of Defense
* Jesner v. Arab Bank PLC

### November sitting[edit]

October 30, 2017

* Ayestas v. Davis
* Wilson v. Sellers

October 31, 2017

* U.S. Bank National Association v. Village at Lakeridge

November 1, 2017

* Artis v. District of Columbia

November 6, 2017

* Merit Management Group v. FTI Consulting

November 7, 2017

* Patchak v. Zinke

### December sitting[edit]

November 27, 2017

* Oil States Energy Services v. Greene's Energy Group
* SAS Institute v. Matal

November 28, 2017

* Cyan v. Beaver County Employees Retirement Fund
* Digital Realty Trust v. Somers

November 29, 2017

* Carpenter v. United States

December 4, 2017

* Murphy v. NCAA / New Jersey Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association v. NCAA (consolidated)
* Rubin v. Iran

December 5, 2017

* Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission
* Marinello v. United States

December 6, 2017

* Murphy v. Smith

### January sitting[edit]

January 8, 2018

* Texas v. New Mexico
* Florida v. Georgia

January 9, 2018

* Byrd v. United States
* Collins v. Virginia

January 10, 2018

* Husted v. Randolph Institute

January 16, 2018

* Hall v. Hall
* Dalmazzi v. United States/Cox v. United States/Ortiz v. United States (consolidated)

January 17, 2018

* Encino Motorcars LLC v. Navarro (2017)
* McCoy v. Louisiana

### February sitting[edit]

February 20, 2018

* Currier v. Virginia
* City of Hays, Kansas v. Vogt

February 21, 2018

* Rosales-Mireles v. United States
* Dahda v. United States

February 26, 2018

* Janus v. AFSCME
* Ohio v. American Express

February 27, 2018

* United States v. Microsoft
* Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach

February 28, 2018

* Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky

### March sitting[edit]

March 19, 2018

* Sveen v. Melin

March 20, 2018

* National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra

March 21, 2018

* Upper Skagit Indian Tribe v. Lundgren

March 26, 2018

* United States v. Sanchez-Gomez
* China Agritech, Inc. v. Resh

March 27, 2018

* Hughes v. United States
* Koons v. United States

March 28, 2018

* Benisek v. Lamone

### April sitting[edit]

April 16, 2018

* Wisconsin Central Ltd. v. United States
* Westerngeco LLC. v. Ion Geophysical Corp.

April 17, 2018

* South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc.
* Lamar, Archer & Cofrin, LLP v. Appling

April 18, 2018

* Washington v. United States
* Lagos v. United States

April 23, 2018

* Lucia v. SEC
* Pereira v. Sessions
* Chavez-Meza v. United States

April 24, 2018

* Abbott v. Perez / Abbott v. Perez (consolidated)
* Animal Science Products v. Hebei Welcome

April 25, 2018

* Trump v. Hawaii

### Cases moved to next term[edit]

* Stokeling v. United States
* Weyerhaeuser Company v. United States Fish and Wildlife Service
* Mount Lemmon Fire District v. Guido
* Knick v. Township of Scott, Pennsylvania
* Nielsen v. Preap
* New Prime Inc. v. Oliveira
* Madison v. Alabama
* Gundy v. United States

### Dismissed cases[edit]

* Salt River Project v. Solarcity Corp.

# Where did the cases come from?[edit]

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[edit]

### Precedent alteration[edit]

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
2024-2025 | 0 of 67  | 0.0%  | N/A
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[edit]

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.

* The highest agreement rate was 95 percent, which applied to the following pairing:
* Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor

* Justice Anthony Kennedy had the highest average agreement rate with each of the other eight justices at 73 percent

* The lowest agreement rate was 43 percent, which applied to the following pairing:
* Justices Samuel Alito and Sonia Sotomayor

* Justice Sonia Sotomayor had the lowest average agreement rate with each of the other eight justices at 67 percent

## See also[edit]

* History of the Supreme Court

* Supreme Court of the United States

* Read about last year's term

## External links[edit]

* Supreme Court of the United States

## Footnotes[edit]

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Washington University Law, "Online Code Book - Formal Alteration of Precedent," accessed March 6, 2026
2. ↑ Washington University Law, "2024 Supreme Court Database, Version 2025 Release 1," September 1, 2025