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 voted without filing or joining an 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. 1		November 8, 2010
2	Abbott v. United States, 562 U.S. 8	October 4, 2010	November 15, 2010
3	Los Angeles County v. Humphries, 562 U.S. 29	October 5, 2010	November 30, 2010
4	Costco Wholesale Corp. v. Omega, S. A.,[1] 562 U.S. 40	November 8, 2010	December 13, 2010
5	Madison County v. Oneida Indian Nation of N. Y., 562 U.S. 42		January 10, 2011
6	Mayo Foundation for Medical Education & Research v. United States, 562 U.S. 44	November 8, 2010	January 11, 2011
7	Ransom v. FIA Card Services, N. A., 562 U.S. 61	October 4, 2010	January 11, 2011
8	Harrington v. Richter, 562 U.S. 86	October 12, 2010	January 19, 2011
9	Premo v. Moore, 562 U.S. 115	October 12, 2010	January 19, 2011
10	NASA v. Nelson, 562 U.S. 134	October 5, 2010	January 19, 2011		1		1 2
11	Thompson v. North American Stainless, LP, 562 U.S. 170	December 7, 2010	January 24, 2011
12	Ortiz v. Jordan, 562 U.S. 180	November 1, 2010	January 24, 2011
13	Chase Bank USA, N. A. v. McCoy, 562 U.S. 195	December 8, 2010	January 24, 2011
14	Swarthout v. Cooke, 562 U.S. 216		January 24, 2011
15	Bruesewitz v. Wyeth, 562 U.S. 223	October 12, 2010	February 22, 2011
16	CSX Transportation, Inc. v. Alabama Dept. of Revenue, 562 U.S. 277	November 10, 2010	February 22, 2011
17	Walker v. Martin, 562 U.S. 307	November 29, 2010	February 23, 2011
18	Williamson v. Mazda Motor of America, Inc., 562 U.S. 323	November 3, 2010	February 23, 2011				1				2
19	Michigan v. Bryant, 562 U.S. 344	October 5, 2010	February 28, 2011		1			2
20	FCC v. AT&T Inc., 562 U.S. 397	January 19, 2011	March 1, 2011
21	Staub v. Proctor Hospital, 562 U.S. 411	November 2, 2010	March 1, 2011
22	Henderson v. Shinseki, 562 U.S. 428	December 6, 2010	March 1, 2011
23	Snyder v. Phelps, 562 U.S. 443	October 10, 2010	March 2, 2011
24	Pepper v. United States, 562 U.S. 476	December 6, 2010	March 2, 2011						*	*
25	Skinner v. Switzer, 562 U.S. 521	October 13, 2010	March 7, 2011
26	Wall v. Kholi, 562 U.S. 545	November 29, 2010	March 7, 2011		*
27	Milner v. Department of Navy, 562 U.S. 562	December 1, 2010	March 7, 2011
28	Felkner v. Jackson, 562 U.S. 594		March 21, 2011
29	Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp., 563 U.S. 1	October 13, 2010	March 22, 2011				*
30	Matrixx Initiatives, Inc. v. Siracusano, 563 U.S. 27	January 10, 2011	March 22, 2011
31	Connick v. Thompson, 563 U.S. 51	October 6, 2010	March 29, 2011
32	Astra USA, Inc. v. Santa Clara County, 563 U.S. 110	January 19, 2011	March 29, 2011
33	Tolentino v. New York,[2] 563 U.S. 123	March 21, 2011	March 29, 2011
34	Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn, 563 U.S. 125	November 3, 2010	April 4, 2011
35	Cullen v. Pinholster, 563 U.S. 170	November 9, 2010	April 4, 2011				*	* *	*	*		* *
36	Virginia Office for Protection and Advocacy v. Stewart, 563 U.S. 247	December 1, 2010	April 19, 2011
37	Sossamon v. Texas, 563 U.S. 277	November 2, 2010	April 20, 2011
38	United States v. Tohono O'odham Nation, 563 U.S. 307	November 1, 2010	April 26, 2011
39	AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, 563 U.S. 333	November 9, 2010	April 27, 2011
40	Montana v. Wyoming, 563 U.S. 368	January 10, 2011	May 2, 2011
41	Bobby v. Mitts, 563 U.S. 395		May 2, 2011
42	Schindler Elevator Corp. v. United States ex rel. Kirk, 563 U.S. 401	March 1, 2011	May 16, 2011
43	CIGNA Corp. v. Amara, 563 U.S. 421	November 30, 2010	May 16, 2011
44	Kentucky v. King, 563 U.S. 452	January 12, 2011	May 16, 2011
45	General Dynamics Corp. v. United States, 563 U.S. 478	January 18, 2011	May 23, 2011
46	Brown v. Plata, 563 U.S. 493	November 30, 2010	May 23, 2011	2	1		1			2
47	Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting, 563 U.S. 582	December 8, 2010	May 26, 2011	*			*	1	1		2
48	United States v. Tinklenberg, 563 U.S. 647	February 22, 2011	May 26, 2011	*	*		*
49	Fowler v. United States, 563 U.S. 668	March 29, 2011	May 26, 2011
50	Camreta v. Greene, 563 U.S. 692	March 1, 2011	May 26, 2011		1				2		2
51	Ashcroft v. al-Kidd, 563 U.S. 731	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. 754	February 23, 2011	May 31, 2011
53	Bd. of Trustees of Stanford Univ. v. Roche Molecular Sys., 563 U.S. 776	February 28, 2011	June 6, 2011
54	Erica P. John Fund, Inc. v. Halliburton Co., 563 U.S. 804	April 25, 2011	June 6, 2011
55	McNeill v. United States, 563 U.S. 816	April 25, 2011	June 6, 2011
56	Fox v. Vice, 563 U.S. 826	March 22, 2011	June 6, 2011
57	Sykes v. United States, 564 U.S. 1	January 12, 2011	June 9, 2011		1			2				2
58	Talk America, Inc. v. Michigan Bell Telephone Co., 564 U.S. 50	March 30, 2011	June 9, 2011
59	DePierre v. United States, 564 U.S. 70	February 28, 2011	June 9, 2011		*
60	Microsoft Corp. v. i4i Ltd. Partnership, 564 U.S. 91	April 18, 2011	June 9, 2011		2		1		2	2
61	Nevada Comm'n on Ethics v. Carrigan, 564 U.S. 117	April 27, 2011	June 13, 2011			1				2
62	Janus Capital Group, Inc. v. First Derivative Traders, 564 U.S. 135	December 7, 2010	June 13, 2011
63	United States v. Jicarilla Apache Nation, 564 U.S. 162	April 20, 2011	June 13, 2011
64	Flores-Villar v. United States,[3] 564 U.S. 210	November 10, 2010	June 13, 2011
65	Bond v. United States, 564 U.S. 211	February 22, 2011	June 16, 2011
66	Davis v. United States, 564 U.S. 229	March 21, 2011	June 16, 2011
67	J. D. B. v. North Carolina, 564 U.S. 261	March 23, 2011	June 16, 2011
68	Smith v. Bayer Corp., 564 U.S. 299	January 18, 2011	June 16, 2011				*
69	Tapia v. United States, 564 U.S. 319	April 18, 2011	June 16, 2011
70	Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes, 564 U.S. 338	March 29, 2011	June 20, 2011					*	*		*	*
71	Borough of Duryea v. Guarnieri, 564 U.S. 379	March 22, 2011	June 20, 2011
72	American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut, 564 U.S. 410	April 19, 2011	June 20, 2011
73	Turner v. Rogers, 564 U.S. 431	March 23, 2011	June 20, 2011	*						*
74	Stern v. Marshall, 564 U.S. 462	January 18, 2011	June 23, 2011
75	Freeman v. United States, 564 U.S. 522	February 23, 2011	June 23, 2011			*
76	Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc., 564 U.S. 552	April 26, 2011	June 23, 2011
77	PLIVA, Inc. v. Mensing, 564 U.S. 604	March 30, 2011	June 23, 2011			*	*
78	Bullcoming v. New Mexico, 564 U.S. 647	March 2, 2011	June 23, 2011				*	*			*	*
79	CSX Transp., Inc. v. McBride, 564 U.S. 685	March 28, 2011	June 23, 2011				*	*
80	Arizona Free Enterprise Club's Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett, 564 U.S. 721	March 28, 2011	June 27, 2011
81	Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Assn., 564 U.S. 786	November 2, 2010	June 27, 2011				1		2
82	J. McIntyre Machinery, Ltd. v. Nicastro, 564 U.S. 873	January 11, 2011	June 27, 2011			*
83	Goodyear Dunlop Tires Operations, S. A. v. Brown, 564 U.S. 915	January 11, 2011	June 27, 2011
84	United States v. Juvenile Male, 564 U.S. 932		June 27, 2011					-	-		-
85	Leal Garcia v. Texas, 564 U.S. 940		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	John Roberts	George W. Bush	September 29, 2005	91.7%	77/84	8	0	0	3	11
Associate Justice	Antonin Scalia	Ronald Reagan	September 26, 1986	87.1%	74/85	10	11	1	6	28
Associate Justice	Anthony Kennedy	Ronald Reagan	February 18, 1988	94.1%	80/85	11	3	0	3	17
Associate Justice	Clarence Thomas	George H. W. Bush	October 23, 1991	87.1%	74/85	9	8	0	5	22
Associate Justice	Ruth Bader Ginsburg	Bill Clinton	August 10, 1993	72.9%	62/85	9	7	1	6	23
Associate Justice	Stephen Breyer	Bill Clinton	August 3, 1994	77.6%	66/85	7	5	1	10	23
Associate Justice	Samuel Alito	George W. Bush	January 31, 2006	87.1%	74/85	7	6	1	4	18
Associate Justice	Sonia Sotomayor	Barack Obama	August 6, 2009	81.7%	67/82	7	9	0	6	22
Associate Justice	Elena Kagan	Barack 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 per curiam opinion in Costco Wholesale Corp. v. Omega, S. A., 562 U.S. 40 (2010), noted that the judgment was affirmed by an equally divided Court.
2. In Tolentino v. New York, 563 U.S. 123 (2011), the Court dismissed the writ of certiorari as improvidently granted.
3. The Court's per curiam opinion in Flores-Villar v. United States, 564 U.S. 210 (2011), noted that the judgment was affirmed by an equally divided Court.

References

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