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Lists of United States Supreme Court cases

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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

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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.[1] These lists are sorted chronologically by chief justice and include most major cases decided by the court.

By volume

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Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States are officially published in the United States Reports.[2]

By term

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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.

By subject matter

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Other lists

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Clare Cushman, Supreme Court Justices: Illustrated Biographies (2013), p. xvii: "Often, the Supreme Court of a particular era is identified by the name of the chief justice: the Marshall Court, the Taft Court, the Warren Court, the Rehnquist Court, the Roberts Court".
  2. ^ Tony Mauro, Illustrated Great Decisions of the Supreme Court (2005), p. 391.
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