# 2016 term United States Supreme Court opinions of Sonia Sotomayor

* The 2016 term of the Supreme Court of the United States began October 3, 2016, and concluded October 1, 2017. This was the eighth term of Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor's tenure on the Court.
* Sonia Sotomayor 2016 term statistics
* 7
* Majority or Plurality
* 5
* Concurrence
* 1
* Other
* 10
* Dissent
* 1
* Concurrence/dissent
* Total =
* 24
* Bench opinions = 15
* Opinions relating to orders = 9
* In-chambers opinions = 0
* Unanimous opinions: 3
* Most joined by: Ginsburg (11)
* Least joined by: Gorsuch (1)
| Type | Case | Citation | Issues | Joined by | Other opinions |
| 401 | Elmore v. Holbrook | 580 U.S. 938 (2016) | Sixth Amendment • ineffective assistance of counsel • death penalty • mitigating factors at sentencing | Ginsburg | |
| Sotomayor dissented from the Court's denial of certiorari. ||||||
| 202 | Tatum v. Arizona | 580 U.S. 952 (2016) | Eighth Amendment • life imprisonment of minors | | Alito |
| Sotomayor concurred in the Court's decision to grant, vacate, and remand. ||||||
| 103 | Samsung Electronics Co. v. Apple Inc. | 580 U.S. 53 (2016) | patent law • relevant article of manufacture in multicomponent product for determining damages | Unanimous | |
| 104 | Lightfoot v. Cendant Mortgage Corp. | 580 U.S. 82 (2017) | Federal National Mortgage Association • sue-and-be-sued clause • federal jurisdiction | Unanimous | |
| 405 | Arthur v. Dunn | 580 U.S. 1141 (2017) | Eighth Amendment • death penalty • lethal injection | Breyer | |
| 106 | Life Technologies Corp. v. Promega Corp. | 580 U.S. 140 (2017) | patent law • infringement of multicomponent inventions | Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer, Kagan; Thomas, Alito (in part) | Alito |
| 207 | Beckles v. United States | 580 U.S. ___ (2017) | Federal Sentencing Guidelines • residual clause • Due Process Clause • void for vagueness doctrine | | Thomas Kennedy Ginsburg |
| 208 | Perez v. Florida | 580 U.S. ___ (2017) | First Amendment • threatening speech | | |
| Sotomayor concurred in the Court's denial of certiorari. ||||||
| 409 | NLRB v. SW General, Inc | 580 U.S. ___ (2017) | Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998 | Ginsburg | Roberts Thomas |
| 210 | Expressions Hair Design v. Schneiderman | 581 U.S. ___ (2017) | First Amendment • commercial speech • regulation of communication of prices • price difference for credit card transactions | Alito | Roberts Breyer |
| 111 | McLane Co. v. EEOC | 581 U.S. ___ (2017) | EEOC subpoenas • standard of review of district court order to quash | Roberts, Kennedy, Thomas, Breyer, Alito, Kagan | Ginsburg |
| 412 | McGehee v. Hutchinson | 581 U.S. ___ (2017) | Eighth Amendment • death penalty • lethal injection | | Breyer |
| Sotomayor dissented from the Court's denial of a stay and of certiorari. ||||||
| 413 | Salazar-Limon v. Houston | 581 U.S. ___ (2017) | summary judgment • excessive force | Ginsburg | Alito |
| Sotomayor dissented from the Court's denial of certiorari. ||||||
| 114 | Lewis v. Clarke | 581 U.S. ___ (2017) | tribal sovereign immunity • lawsuit against tribal employee as individual | Roberts, Kennedy, Breyer, Alito, Kagan | Thomas Ginsburg |
| 415 | Midland Funding, LLC v. Johnson | 581 U.S. ___ (2017) | Fair Debt Collection Practices Act • bankruptcy law • filing of obviously time-barred proof of claim | Ginsburg, Kagan | Breyer |
| 416 | Arthur v. Dunn | 581 U.S. ___ (2017) | Eighth Amendment • death penalty • lethal injection | | |
| Sotomayor dissented from the Court's denial of an application for a stay of execution and of certiorari. ||||||
| 317 | BNSF R. Co. v. Tyrrell | 581 U.S. ___ (2017) | Federal Employers' Liability Act • personal jurisdiction over railroads • Fourteenth Amendment • Due Process Clause | | Ginsburg |
| 118 | Honeycutt v. United States | 581 U.S. ___ (2017) | Comprehensive Forfeiture Act of 1984 • liability of co-conspirators | Roberts, Kennedy, Thomas, Ginsburg, Breyer, Alito, Kagan | |
| 119 | Kokesh v. SEC | 581 U.S. ___ (2017) | SEC disgorgement • statute of limitations | Unanimous | |
| 220 | Advocate Health Care Network v. Stapleton | 581 U.S. ___ (2017) | Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 • church plans | | Kagan |
| 421 | Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court of Cal., San Francisco Cty. | 582 U.S. ___ (2017) | Fourteenth Amendment • Due Process Clause • personal jurisdiction • specific jurisdiction | | Alito |
| 422 | Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer | 582 U.S. ___ (2017) | First Amendment • Free Exercise Clause • Establishment Clause • eligibility of religious organization for government grant | Ginsburg | Roberts Thomas Breyer Gorsuch |
| 523 | Mathis v. Shulkin | 582 U.S. ___ (2017) | Board of Veterans' Appeals • presumption of competence of medical examiners rendering opinion against claim | | Gorsuch |
| Sotomayor filed a statement respecting the Court's denial of certiorari. ||||||
| 424 | Otte v. Morgan | 582 U.S. ___ (2017) | Eighth Amendment • death penalty | Ginsburg | |
| Sotomayor dissented from the Court's denial of a stay and of certiorari. ||||||