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 will conclude 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., 592 U.S. ___		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, 592 U.S. ___	December 7, 2020	February 3, 2021

2020 term membership and statistics

This is the sixteenth term of Chief Justice Roberts's tenure and the first (partial) 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	93.3%	14/15	1	0	0	1	2
Associate Justice	Clarence Thomas	George H. W. Bush	October 15, 1991	80%	12/15	1	1	0	1	3
Associate Justice	Stephen Breyer	Bill Clinton	August 3, 1994	80%	12/15	1	0	0	2	3
Associate Justice	Samuel Alito	George W. Bush	January 31, 2006	86.7%	13/15	2	1	1	0	4
Associate Justice	Sonia Sotomayor	Barack Obama	August 6, 2009	80%	12/15	2	2	0	1	5
Associate Justice	Elena Kagan	Barack Obama	August 7, 2010	80%	12/15	0	0	0	0	0
Associate Justice	Neil Gorsuch	Donald Trump	April 7, 2017	93.3%	14/15	0	2	0	0	2
Associate Justice	Brett Kavanaugh	Donald Trump	October 6, 2018	100%	15/15	1	1	0	0	2
Associate Justice	Amy Coney Barrett	Donald Trump	October 26, 2020	85.7%	6/7	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
						8	7	1	5	21

References

• 2020 Term Opinions of the Court, Supreme Court of the United States, retrieved February 3, 2021.
• 2020 Term Court Calendar (PDF), Supreme Court of the United States, retrieved September 19, 2020