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2010 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States

October 2010 to October 2011 opinions

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Source revisionFeb 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ4619157 ↗
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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.

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2010 term opinions

2010 term membership and statistics

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

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This entry incorporates text from “2010 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.