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]

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
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]

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  History of the Supreme Court

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  Supreme Court of the United States

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  Read about last year's term

External links[edit]

• Supreme Court of the United States

Footnotes[edit]