Lists of United States Supreme Court cases
list of lists
This page serves as an index of lists of United States Supreme Court cases. The United States Supreme Court is the highest federal court of the United States.
By chief justice
Court historians and other legal scholars consider each chief justice who presides over the Supreme Court of the United States to be the head of an era of the Court.
These lists are sorted chronologically by chief justice and include most major cases decided by the court. The first three Courts (those of Jay, Rutledge, and Ellsworth) that precede the Marshall Court are grouped together, since their individual terms were relatively short and decisions few in number, while the Supreme Court was still finding its footing.
By volume
Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States are officially published in the United States Reports.
Lists of United States Supreme Court cases by volume
By term
These lists contain detailed tables about each term since 1999, including which justices filed the court's opinion, dissenting and concurring opinions in each case, and information about justices joining opinions. The tables conclude with term statistics and concordance data.
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