2020 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States

The 2020 term of the Supreme Court of the United States began October 5, 2020, and concluded October 3, 2021. 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
	Filed a statement		Joined a statement		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.

2020 term opinions

#	Case name and citation	Argued	Decided	Roberts	Thomas	Breyer	Alito	Sotomayor	Kagan	Gorsuch	Kavanaugh	Barrett
1	Mckesson v. Doe, 592 U.S. ___		November 2, 2020		-
2	Taylor v. Riojas, 592 U.S. ___		November 2, 2020		-
3	Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo, 592 U.S. ___		November 25, 2020	1		2		2 3	2 3	1	2
4	Tanzin v. Tanvir, 592 U.S. ___	October 6, 2020	December 10, 2020
5	Carney v. Adams, 592 U.S. ___	October 5, 2020	December 10, 2020
6	United States v. Briggs, 592 U.S. ___	October 13, 2020	December 10, 2020
7	Rutledge v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Assn., 592 U.S. ___	October 6, 2020	December 10, 2020
8	Texas v. New Mexico, 592 U.S. ___	October 5, 2020	December 14, 2020
9	Shinn v. Kayer, 592 U.S. ___		December 14, 2020			-		-	-
10	Trump v. New York, 592 U.S. ___	November 30, 2020	December 18, 2020
11	Chicago v. Fulton, 592 U.S. ___	October 13, 2020	January 14, 2021
12	Henry Schein, Inc. v. Archer & White Sales, Inc.,^[1] 592 U.S. ___	December 8, 2020	January 25, 2021
13	Federal Republic of Germany v. Philipp, 592 U.S. ___	December 7, 2020	February 3, 2021
14	Salinas v. Railroad Retirement Bd., 592 U.S. ___	November 2, 2020	February 3, 2021
15	Republic of Hungary v. Simon,^[2] 592 U.S. ___	December 7, 2020	February 3, 2021
16	Brownback v. King, 592 U.S. ___	November 9, 2020	February 25, 2021
17	Pereida v. Wilkinson, 592 U.S. ___	October 14, 2020	March 4, 2021
18	United States Fish and Wildlife Serv. v. Sierra Club, Inc., 592 U.S. ___	November 2, 2020	March 4, 2021
19	Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski, 592 U.S. ___	January 12, 2021	March 8, 2021
20	Torres v. Madrid, 592 U.S. ___	October 14, 2020	March 25, 2021
21	Ford Motor Co. v. Montana Eighth Judicial Dist., 592 U.S. ___	October 7, 2020	March 25, 2021		2		1			2
22	Mays v. Hines, 592 U.S. ___		March 29, 2021					-
23	Facebook, Inc. v. Duguid, 592 U.S. ___	December 8, 2020	April 1, 2021
24	FCC v. Prometheus Radio Project, 592 U.S. ___	January 19, 2021	April 1, 2021
25	Florida v. Georgia, 592 U.S. ___	February 22, 2021	April 1, 2021
26	Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc., 593 U.S. ___	October 7, 2020	April 5, 2021
27	Tandon v. Newsom, 593 U.S. ___		April 9, 2021	-
28	AMG Capital Management, LLC v. FTC, 593 U.S. ___	January 13, 2021	April 22, 2021
29	Carr v. Saul, 593 U.S. ___	March 3, 2021	April 22, 2021		* 1	* 2				* 1		* 1
30	Jones v. Mississippi, 593 U.S. ___	November 3, 2020	April 22, 2021
31	Alaska v. Wright, 593 U.S. ___		April 26, 2021
32	Niz-Chavez v. Garland, 593 U.S. ___	November 9, 2020	April 29, 2021
33	Caniglia v. Strom, 593 U.S. ___	March 24, 2021	May 17, 2021	1		1	2				3
34	CIC Services, LLC v. Internal Revenue Service, 593 U.S. ___	December 1, 2020	May 17, 2021					1			2
35	BP P.L.C. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, 593 U.S. ___	January 19, 2021	May 17, 2021
36	Edwards v. Vannoy, 593 U.S. ___	December 2, 2020	May 17, 2021		1 2					1 2
37	Guam v. United States, 593 U.S. ___	April 26, 2021	May 24, 2021
38	United States v. Palomar-Santiago, 593 U.S. ___	April 27, 2021	May 24, 2021
39	San Antonio v. Hotels.com, L. P., 593 U.S. ___	April 21, 2021	May 27, 2021
40	United States v. Cooley, 593 U.S. ___	March 23, 2021	June 1, 2021
41	Garland v. Ming Dai, 593 U.S. ___	February 23, 2021	June 1, 2021
42	Van Buren v. United States, 593 U.S. ___	November 30, 2020	June 3, 2021
43	Sanchez v. Mayorkas, 593 U.S. ___	April 19, 2021	June 7, 2021
44	Borden v. United States, 593 U.S. ___	November 3, 2020	June 10, 2021						*
45	Terry v. United States, 593 U.S. ___	May 4, 2021	June 14, 2021
46	Greer v. United States, 593 U.S. ___	April 20, 2021	June 14, 2021
47	Fulton v. Philadelphia, 593 U.S. ___	November 4, 2020	June 17, 2021		2 3	1*	2 3			2 3	1	1
48	Nestlé USA, Inc. v. Doe, 593 U.S. ___	December 1, 2020	June 17, 2021	*	*	* 2	1*	* 2	* 2	1	1*	*
49	California v. Texas, 593 U.S. ___	November 10, 2020	June 17, 2021
50	United States v. Arthrex, Inc., 594 U.S. ___	March 1, 2021	June 21, 2021	*		2 *		2 *	2 *	* 1
51	National Collegiate Athletic Assn. v. Alston, 594 U.S. ___	March 31, 2021	June 21, 2021
52	Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. v. Arkansas Teacher Retirement System, 594 U.S. ___	March 29, 2021	June 21, 2021		* 2		* 2	* 1		* 2
53	Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, 594 U.S. ___	March 22, 2021	June 23, 2021
54	Mahanoy Area School Dist. v. B. L., 594 U.S. ___	April 28, 2021	June 23, 2021
55	Collins v. Yellen, 594 U.S. ___	December 9, 2020	June 23, 2021		1	* 3*		* 3*	* 3	* 2
56	Lange v. California, 594 U.S. ___	February 24, 2021	June 23, 2021	3	* 2		3				1 2*
57	Yellen v. Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, 594 U.S. ___	April 19, 2021	June 25, 2021				*
58	HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining, LLC v. Renewable Fuels Assn., 594 U.S. ___	April 27, 2021	June 25, 2021
59	TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez, 594 U.S. ___	March 30, 2021	June 25, 2021		1	1 2		1 2	1 2
60	Lombardo v. St. Louis, 594 U.S. ___		June 28, 2021
61	Pakdel v. City and County of San Francisco, 594 U.S. ___		June 28, 2021
62	PennEast Pipeline Co. v. New Jersey, 594 U.S. ___	April 28, 2021	June 29, 2021		1 2				2	1 2		2
63	Johnson v. Guzman Chavez, 594 U.S. ___	January 11, 2021	June 29, 2021		*		*			*
64	Minerva Surgical, Inc. v. Hologic, Inc., 594 U.S. ___	April 21, 2021	June 29, 2021		2		1			2		2
65	Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta, 594 U.S. ___	April 26, 2021	July 1, 2021	*	* 1		* 2			* 2
66	Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, 594 U.S. ___	March 2, 2021	July 1, 2021
67	Dunn v. Reeves, 594 U.S. ___		July 2, 2021			-
68	Alabama Assn. of Realtors v. Department of Health and Human Servs., 594 U.S. ___		August 26, 2021
#	Case name and citation	Argued	Decided	Roberts	Thomas	Breyer	Alito	Sotomayor	Kagan	Gorsuch	Kavanaugh	Barrett

2020 term membership and statistics

This was the sixteenth term of Chief Justice Roberts's tenure and the first term for Justice Barrett. The Court began its term with a vacant seat following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on September 18, 2020. The seat was filled by Amy Coney Barrett on October 26, 2020.

Justice		Appointment history		Agreement with judgment		Opinions filed
Seniority	Name	President	Date confirmed	%	#					Total
Chief Justice	John Roberts	George W. Bush	September 29, 2005	91.2%	62/68	7	2	0	2	11
Associate Justice	Clarence Thomas	George H. W. Bush	October 15, 1991	79.4%	54/68	7	11	0	6	24
Associate Justice	Stephen Breyer	Bill Clinton	August 3, 1994	75%	51/68	6	1	1	7	15
Associate Justice	Samuel Alito	George W. Bush	January 31, 2006	82.1%	55/67	6	8	1	4	19
Associate Justice	Sonia Sotomayor	Barack Obama	August 6, 2009	67.6%	46/68	6	6	3	5	20
Associate Justice	Elena Kagan	Barack Obama	August 7, 2010	73.5%	50/68	6	1	0	4	11
Associate Justice	Neil Gorsuch	Donald Trump	April 7, 2017	86.8%	59/68	6	8	2	3	19
Associate Justice	Brett Kavanaugh	Donald Trump	October 6, 2018	97.1%	66/68	6	7	0	2	15
Associate Justice	Amy Coney Barrett	Donald Trump	October 26, 2020	91.1%	51/56	4	1	0	3	8
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
						54	45	7	36	142

Notes

1. In Henry Schein, Inc. v. Archer & White Sales, Inc., 592 U.S. ___ (2021), the Court dismissed the writ of certiorari as improvidently granted.
2. In Republic of Hungary v. Simon, 592 U.S. ___ (2021), the Court vacated the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit's judgment and remanded for further proceedings consistent with Federal Republic of Germany v. Philipp, 592 U.S. ___ (2021), which was handed down the same day.

References

• "2020 Term Opinions of the Court". Supreme Court of the United States. Retrieved July 2, 2021.
• "2020 Term Court Calendar" (PDF). Supreme Court of the United States. Retrieved September 19, 2020.