2013 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States

The 2013 term of the Supreme Court of the United States began October 7, 2013 and concluded October 5, 2014. 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 concurred or dissented without filing a separate opinion.

2013 term opinions

#	Case name and citation	Argued	Decided	Roberts	Scalia	Kennedy	Thomas	Ginsburg	Breyer	Alito	Sotomayor	Kagan
1	Madigan v. Levin,[1] 571 U.S. ___	October 7, 2013	October 15, 2013
2	Stanton v. Sims, 571 U.S. ___		November 4, 2013
3	Burt v. Titlow, 571 U.S. ___	October 8, 2013	November 5, 2013					1			2
4	Ford Motor Co. v. United States, 571 U.S. ___		December 2, 2013
5	United States v. Woods, 571 U.S. ___	October 9, 2013	December 3, 2013
6	Atlantic Marine Constr. Co. v. U.S. Dist. Ct. for Western Dist. of Tex., 571 U.S. ___	October 9, 2013	December 3, 2013
7	Sprint Communications, Inc. v. Jacobs, 571 U.S. ___	November 5, 2013	December 10, 2013
8	Unite Here Local 355 v. Mulhall,[2] 571 U.S. ___	November 13, 2013	December 10, 2013
9	Kansas v. Cheever, 571 U.S. ___	October 16, 2013	December 11, 2013
10	Heimeshoff v. Hartford Life & Accident Ins. Co., 571 U.S. ___	October 15, 2013	December 16, 2013
11	Daimler AG v. Bauman, 571 U.S. ___	October 15, 2013	January 14, 2014
12	Mississippi ex rel. Hood v. AU Optronics Corp., 571 U.S. ___	November 6, 2013	January 14, 2014
13	Ray Haluch Gravel Co. v. Central Pension Fund, 571 U.S. ___	December 9, 2013	January 15, 2014
14	Medtronic, Inc. v. Mirowski Family Ventures, LLC, 571 U.S. ___	November 5, 2013	January 22, 2014
15	Burrage v. United States, 571 U.S. ___	November 12, 2013	January 27, 2014							*
16	Sandifer v. United States Steel Corp., 571 U.S. ___	November 4, 2013	January 27, 2014								*
17	Air Wisconsin Airlines Corp. v. Hoeper, 571 U.S. ___	December 9, 2013	January 27, 2014		*		* *					* *
18	Hinton v. Alabama, 571 U.S. ___		February 24, 2014
19	Walden v. Fiore, 571 U.S. ___	November 4, 2013	February 25, 2014
20	Fernandez v. California, 571 U.S. ___	November 13, 2013	February 25, 2014		1		2
21	Kaley v. United States, 571 U.S. ___	October 16, 2013	February 25, 2014
22	United States v. Apel, 571 U.S. ___	December 4, 2013	February 26, 2014					1		2	1
23	Chadbourne & Parke LLP v. Troice, 571 U.S. ___	October 7, 2013	February 26, 2014
24	Law v. Siegel, 571 U.S. ___	January 13, 2014	March 4, 2014
25	Lawson v. FMR LLC, 571 U.S. ___	November 12, 2013	March 4, 2014		*		*
26	Lozano v. Montoya Alvarez, 572 U.S. ___	December 11, 2013	March 5, 2014
27	BG Group plc v. Republic of Argentina, 572 U.S. ___	December 2, 2013	March 5, 2014								*
28	Rosemond v. United States, 572 U.S. ___	November 12, 2013	March 5, 2014		*		*
29	Marvin M. Brandt Revocable Trust v. United States, 572 U.S. ___	January 14, 2014	March 10, 2014
30	Lexmark Int'l, Inc. v. Static Control Components, Inc., 572 U.S. ___	December 3, 2013	March 25, 2014
31	United States v. Quality Stores, Inc., 572 U.S. ___	January 14, 2014	March 25, 2014
32	United States v. Castleman, 572 U.S. ___	January 15, 2014	March 26, 2014		1		2			2
33	McCutcheon v. Federal Election Comm'n, 572 U.S. ___	October 8, 2013	April 2, 2014	*
34	Northwest, Inc. v. Ginsberg, 572 U.S. ___	December 3, 2013	April 2, 2014
35	Schuette v. BAMN, 572 U.S. ___	October 15, 2013	April 22, 2014	1	2	*	2		3
36	Prado Navarette v. California, 572 U.S. ___	January 21, 2014	April 22, 2014
37	White v. Woodall, 572 U.S. ___	December 11, 2013	April 23, 2014
38	Paroline v. United States, 572 U.S. ___	January 22, 2014	April 23, 2014	1	1		1				2
39	EPA v. EME Homer City Generation, L. P., 572 U.S. ___	December 10, 2013	April 29, 2014
40	Octane Fitness, LLC v. ICON Health & Fitness, Inc., 572 U.S. ___	February 26, 2014	April 29, 2014		*
41	Highmark Inc. v. Allcare Health Management System, Inc., 572 U.S. ___	February 26, 2014	April 29, 2014
42	Town of Greece v. Galloway, 572 U.S. ___	November 6, 2013	May 5, 2014		* 1* 2	*	* 1	2	1 2	2	2	2
43	Robers v. United States, 572 U.S. ___	February 25, 2014	May 5, 2014
44	Tolan v. Cotton, 572 U.S. ___		May 5, 2014
45	Petrella v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc., 572 U.S. ___	January 21, 2014	May 19, 2014
46	Hall v. Florida, 572 U.S. ___	March 3, 2014	May 27, 2014
47	Wood v. Moss, 572 U.S. ___	March 26, 2014	May 27, 2014
48	Plumhoff v. Rickard, 572 U.S. ___	March 4, 2014	May 27, 2014					*	*
49	Michigan v. Bay Mills Indian Community, 572 U.S. ___	December 2, 2013	May 27, 2014		1 2		2	2 3		2
50	Martinez v. Illinois, 572 U.S. ___		May 27, 2014
51	Bond v. United States, 572 U.S. ___	November 5, 2013	June 2, 2014		1 2		1 2			1* 2* 3
52	Nautilus, Inc. v. Biosig Instruments, Inc., 572 U.S. ___	April 28, 2014	June 2, 2014
53	Limelight Networks, Inc. v. Akamai Technologies, Inc., 572 U.S. ___	April 30, 2014	June 2, 2014
54	CTS Corp. v. Waldburger, 573 U.S. ___	April 23, 2014	June 9, 2014	*	*	*	*			*
55	Executive Benefits Ins. Agency v. Arkison, 573 U.S. ___	January 14, 2014	June 9, 2014
56	Scialabba v. Cuellar de Osorio, 573 U.S. ___	December 10, 2013	June 9, 2014				2*		2	1	2	*
57	POM Wonderful LLC v. Coca-Cola Co., 573 U.S. ___	April 21, 2014	June 12, 2014
58	Clark v. Rameker, 573 U.S. ___	March 24, 2014	June 12, 2014
59	Republic of Argentina v. NML Capital, Ltd., 573 U.S. ___	April 21, 2014	June 16, 2014
60	Susan B. Anthony List v. Driehaus, 573 U.S. ___	April 22, 2014	June 16, 2014
61	Abramski v. United States, 573 U.S. ___	January 22, 2014	June 16, 2014
62	Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int'l, 573 U.S. ___	March 31, 2014	June 19, 2014
63	Lane v. Franks, 573 U.S. ___	April 28, 2014	June 19, 2014
64	United States v. Clarke, 573 U.S. ___	April 23, 2014	June 19, 2014
65	Halliburton Co. v. Erica P. John Fund, Inc., 573 U.S. ___	March 5, 2014	June 23, 2014		1		1	2	2	1	2
66	Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA, 573 U.S. ___	February 24, 2014	June 23, 2014		*		* 2	* 1	* 1	* 2	* 1	* 1
67	Loughrin v. United States, 573 U.S. ___	April 1, 2014	June 23, 2014		* 1		* 1			2
68	Riley v. California, 573 U.S. ___	April 29, 2014	June 25, 2014
69	Fifth Third Bancorp v. Dudenhoeffer, 573 U.S. ___	April 2, 2014	June 25, 2014
70	American Broadcasting Cos. v. Aereo, Inc., 573 U.S. ___	April 22, 2014	June 25, 2014
71	McCullen v. Coakley, 573 U.S. ___	January 15, 2014	June 26, 2014		1	1	1			2
72	NLRB v. Noel Canning, 573 U.S. ___	January 13, 2014	June 26, 2014
73	Harris v. Quinn, 573 U.S. ___	January 21, 2014	June 30, 2014
74	Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., 573 U.S. ___	March 25, 2014	June 30, 2014					1	1* 2		1	1* 2
75	Williams v. Johnson, 573 U.S. ___		July 1, 2014
#	Case name and citation	Argued	Decided	Roberts	Scalia	Kennedy	Thomas	Ginsburg	Breyer	Alito	Sotomayor	Kagan

2013 term membership and statistics

This was the ninth term of Chief Justice Roberts's tenure and the fourth term with the same membership.

Justice		Appointment history		Agreement with judgment		Opinions filed
Seniority	Name	President	Date confirmed	%	#					Total
Chief Justice	Roberts, JohnJohn Roberts	Bush, George W.George W. Bush	September 29, 2005	92%	69/75	7	2	0	3	12
Associate Justice	Scalia, AntoninAntonin Scalia	Reagan, RonaldRonald Reagan	September 26, 1986	89.3%	67/75	8	9	1	5	23
Associate Justice	Kennedy, AnthonyAnthony Kennedy	Reagan, RonaldRonald Reagan	February 18, 1988	94.7%	71/75	8	1	0	1	10
Associate Justice	Thomas, ClarenceClarence Thomas	Bush, George H. W.George H. W. Bush	October 23, 1991	86.7%	65/75	7	7	0	1	15
Associate Justice	Ginsburg, Ruth BaderRuth Bader Ginsburg	Clinton, BillBill Clinton	August 10, 1993	84%	63/75	7	4	0	5	16
Associate Justice	Breyer, StephenStephen Breyer	Clinton, BillBill Clinton	August 3, 1994	85.1%	63/74	7	1	1	6	15
Associate Justice	Alito, SamuelSamuel Alito	Bush, George W.George W. Bush	January 31, 2006	87.8%	65/74	8	9	2	2	21
Associate Justice	Sotomayor, SoniaSonia Sotomayor	Obama, BarackBarack Obama	August 6, 2009	79.7%	59/74	8	6	0	5	19
Associate Justice	Kagan, ElenaElena Kagan	Obama, BarackBarack Obama	August 7, 2010	87.7%	64/73	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. Individual opinion counts will not match the Court's totals; Breyer and Kagan's jointly authored dissent in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. is counted separately for both justices but counted only once in the Court's totals.						Totals
						67	39	4	30	140

Notes

1. In Madigan v. Levin, 571 U.S. ___ (2013), the Court dismissed certiorari as improvidently granted.
2. In Unite Here Local 355 v. Mulhall, 571 U.S. ___ (2013), the Court dismissed certiorari as improvidently granted.

References

• 2013 Term Opinions of the Court, Supreme Court of the United States, retrieved October 6, 2014.

Further reading

• Wirth, Stephen, Supreme Court of the United States 2013–2014 Term in Review, Legal Information Institute
• Katyal, Neal K. (June 26, 2014), "The Supreme Court's Powerful New Consensus", The New York Times (editorial)
• Liptak, Adam (October 7, 2013), "Supreme Court Has Deep Docket in Its New Term", The New York Times