2016 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States

The 2016 term of the Supreme Court of the United States began October 3, 2016 and will conclude October 1, 2017. The table below 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.

2016 term opinions

#	Case name and citation	Argued	Decided	Roberts	Kennedy	Thomas	Ginsburg	Breyer	Alito	Sotomayor	Kagan
1	Bosse v. Oklahoma, 580 U.S. ___		October 11, 2016
2	Bravo-Fernandez v. United States, 580 U.S. ___	October 4, 2016	November 29, 2016

2016 term membership and statistics

This is the twelfth term of Chief Justice Roberts's tenure. The Court began the term with eight members, as Congress has not yet confirmed a replacement following the death of Justice Scalia during the 2015 term.

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	100%	2/2	0	0	0	0	0
Associate Justice	Kennedy, AnthonyAnthony Kennedy	Reagan, RonaldRonald Reagan	February 18, 1988	100%	2/2	0	0	0	0	0
Associate Justice	Thomas, ClarenceClarence Thomas	Bush, George H. W.George H. W. Bush	October 23, 1991	100%	2/2	0	2	0	0	2
Associate Justice	Ginsburg, Ruth BaderRuth Bader Ginsburg	Clinton, BillBill Clinton	August 10, 1993	100%	2/2	1	0	0	0	1
Associate Justice	Breyer, StephenStephen Breyer	Clinton, BillBill Clinton	August 3, 1994	100%	2/2	0	0	0	0	0
Associate Justice	Alito, SamuelSamuel Alito	Bush, George W.George W. Bush	January 31, 2006	100%	2/2	0	0	0	0	0
Associate Justice	Sotomayor, SoniaSonia Sotomayor	Obama, BarackBarack Obama	August 6, 2009	100%	2/2	0	0	0	0	0
Associate Justice	Kagan, ElenaElena Kagan	Obama, BarackBarack Obama	August 7, 2010	100%	2/2	0	0	0	0	0
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
						1	2	0	0	3

References

• 2016 Term Opinions of the Court, Supreme Court of the United States, retrieved November 29, 2016.