2018 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States

The 2018 term of the Supreme Court of the United States began October 1, 2018, and will conclude October 6, 2019. The table below will illustrate 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.

2018 term opinions

# Case name and citation Argued Decided Roberts Thomas Ginsburg Breyer Alito Sotomayor Kagan GorsuchKavanaugh
1 pending, 586 U.S. ___

2018 term membership and statistics

This is the fourteenth term of Chief Justice Roberts's tenure and the first for Justice Kavanaugh. The Court began the term with eight members, as Congress had not yet confirmed a replacement following the retirement of Justice Kennedy during the 2017 term.

Justice Appointment history Agreement with judgment Opinions filed
Seniority Name President Date confirmed %# Total
Chief Justice John Roberts George W. Bush September 29, 2005 0% 0/0 0 0 0 0 0
Associate Justice Clarence Thomas George H. W. Bush October 23, 1991 0% 0/0 0 0 0 0 0
Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Bill Clinton August 10, 1993 0% 0/0 0 0 0 0 0
Associate Justice Stephen Breyer Bill Clinton August 3, 1994 0% 0/0 0 0 0 0 0
Associate Justice Samuel Alito George W. Bush January 31, 2006 0% 0/0 0 0 0 0 0
Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor Barack Obama August 6, 2009 0% 0/0 0 0 0 0 0
Associate Justice Elena Kagan Barack Obama August 7, 2010 0% 0/0 0 0 0 0 0
Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch Donald Trump April 7, 2017 0% 0/0 0 0 0 0 0
Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh Donald Trump October 6, 2018 0% 0/0 0 0 0 0 0
 Totals
0 0 0 0 0


References

  • 2018 Term Opinions of the Court, Supreme Court of the United States, retrieved October 1, 2018 .
  • 2018 Term Court Calendar (PDF), Supreme Court of the United States, retrieved August 11, 2018
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