# 2021 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States

The 2021 term of the Supreme Court of the United States began October 4, 2021, and concluded October 2, 2022. 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. ||||||||

## 2021 term opinions

| # | Case name and citation | Argued | Decided | Roberts | Thomas | Breyer | Alito | Sotomayor | Kagan | Gorsuch | Kavanaugh | Barrett |
| 1 | Rivas-Villegas v. Cortesluna, 595 U.S. 1 | | October 18, 2021 | | | | | | | | | |
| 2 | City of Tahlequah v. Bond, 595 U.S. 9 | | October 18, 2021 | | | | | | | | | |
| 3 | Mississippi v. Tennessee, 595 U.S. 15 | October 4, 2021 | November 22, 2021 | | | | | | | | | |
| 4 | Whole Woman's Health v. Jackson, 595 U.S. 30 | November 1, 2021 | December 10, 2021 | 2 | *1 | 23 | | 23 | 23 | * | | |
| 5 | United States v. Texas, 595 U.S. 74 | November 1, 2021 | December 10, 2021 | | | | | - | | | | |
| 6 | Babcock v. Kijakazi, 595 U.S. 77 | October 13, 2021 | January 13, 2022 | | | | | | | | | |
| 7 | Biden v. Missouri, 595 U.S. 87 | January 7, 2022 | January 13, 2022 | | 12 | | 12 | | | 12 | | 12 |
| 8 | National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, 595 U.S. 109 | January 7, 2022 | January 13, 2022 | | | | | | | | | |
| 9 | Hemphill v. New York, 595 U.S. 140 | October 5, 2021 | January 20, 2022 | | | | | | | | | |
| 10 | Hughes v. Northwestern University, 595 U.S. 170 | December 6, 2021 | January 24, 2022 | | | | | | | | | |
| 11 | Unicolors, Inc v. H&M Hennes & Mauritz, LP, 595 U.S. 178 | November 8, 2021 | February 24, 2022 | | | | | | | * | | |
| 12 | United States v. Zubaydah, 595 U.S. 195 | October 6, 2021 | March 3, 2022 | | *1 | * | *1 | | * | | *2 | *2 |
| 13 | Cameron v. EMW Women's Surgical Center, P.S.C., 595 U.S. 267 | October 12, 2021 | March 3, 2022 | | 1 | 2 | | | 2 | | | |
| 14 | United States v. Tsarnaev, 595 U.S. 302 | October 13, 2021 | March 4, 2022 | | | | | * | * | | | |
| 15 | Federal Bureau of Investigation v. Fazaga, 595 U.S. 344 | November 8, 2021 | March 4, 2022 | | | | | | | | | |
| 16 | Wooden v. United States, 595 U.S. 360 | October 4, 2021 | March 7, 2022 | | *3 | | * | 14* | | 4 | 2 | *3 |
| 17 | Wisconsin Legislature v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, 595 U.S. 398 | | March 23, 2022 | | | | | | | | | |
| 18 | Ramirez v. Collier, 595 U.S. 411 | November 9, 2021 | March 24, 2022 | | | | | 1 | | | 2 | |
| 19 | Houston Community College System v. Wilson, 595 U.S. 468 | November 2, 2021 | March 24, 2022 | | | | | | | | | |
| 20 | Badgerow v. Walters, 596 U.S. 1 | November 2, 2021 | March 31, 2022 | | | | | | | | | |
| 21 | Thompson v. Clark, 596 U.S. 36 | October 12, 2021 | April 4, 2022 | | | | | | | | | |
| 22 | City of Austin v. Reagan National Advertising of Austin, LLC, 596 U.S. 61 | November 10, 2021 | April 21, 2022 | | | | | | | | | |
| 23 | Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation, 596 U.S. 107 | January 18, 2022 | April 21, 2022 | | | | | | | | | |
| 24 | Brown v. Davenport, 596 U.S. 118 | October 5, 2021 | April 21, 2022 | | | | | | | | | |
| 25 | United States v. Vaello Madero, 596 U.S. 159 | October 5, 2021 | April 21, 2022 | | 1 | | | | | 2 | | |
| 26 | Boechler v. Commissioner, 596 U.S. 199 | January 12, 2022 | April 21, 2022 | | | | | | | | | |
| 27 | Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller, P.L.L.C., 596 U.S. 212 | November 30, 2021 | April 28, 2022 | | | | | | | | | |
| 28 | LeDure v. Union Pacific Railroad Company, 596 U.S. 242 | March 28, 2022 | April 28, 2022 | | | | | | | | | |
| 29 | Shurtleff v. Boston, 596 U.S. 243 | January 18, 2022 | May 2, 2022 | | 23 | | 2 | | | 23 | 1 | |
| 30 | FEC v. Ted Cruz for Senate, 596 U.S. 289 | January 19, 2022 | May 16, 2022 | | | | | | | | | |
| 31 | Patel v. Garland, 596 U.S. 328 | December 6, 2021 | May 16, 2022 | | | | | | | | | |
| 32 | Shinn v. Ramirez, 596 U.S. 366 | December 8, 2021 | May 23, 2022 | | | | | | | | | |
| 33 | Morgan v. Sundance, Inc., 596 U.S. 411 | March 21, 2022 | May 23, 2022 | | | | | | | | | |
| 34 | Gallardo v. Marstiller, 596 U.S. 420 | January 10, 2022 | June 6, 2022 | | | | | | | | | |
| 35 | Southwest Airlines Co. v. Saxon, 596 U.S. 450 | March 28, 2022 | June 6, 2022 | | | | | | | | | |
| 36 | Siegel v. Fitzgerald, 596 U.S. 464 | April 18, 2022 | June 6, 2022 | | | | | | | | | |
| 37 | Egbert v. Boule, 596 U.S. 482 | March 2, 2022 | June 8, 2022 | | | | | | | | | |
| 38 | Kemp v. United States, 596 U.S. 528 | April 19, 2022 | June 13, 2022 | | | | | | | | | |
| 39 | Garland v. Gonzalez, 596 U.S. 543 | January 11, 2022 | June 13, 2022 | | | * | | | | | | |
| 40 | Johnson v. Arteaga-Martinez, 596 U.S. 573 | January 11, 2022 | June 13, 2022 | | | | | | | * | | |
| 41 | Denezpi v. United States, 596 U.S. 591 | February 22, 2022 | June 13, 2022 | | | | | * | * | | | |
| 42 | ZF Automotive U. S., Inc. v. Luxshare, Ltd., 596 U.S. 619 | March 23, 2022 | June 13, 2022 | | | | | | | | | |
| 43 | Viking River Cruises, Inc. v. Moriana, 596 U.S. 639 | March 30, 2022 | June 15, 2022 | *2* | | | | 1 | | | *2 | *2 |
| 44 | Golan v. Saada, 596 U.S. 666 | March 22, 2022 | June 15, 2022 | | | | | | | | | |
| 45 | Ysleta del Sur Pueblo v. Texas, 596 U.S. 685 | February 22, 2022 | June 15, 2022 | | | | | | | | | |
| 46 | American Hospital Association v. Becerra, 596 U.S. 724 | November 30, 2021 | June 15, 2022 | | | | | | | | | |
| 47 | George v. McDonough, 596 U.S. 740 | April 19, 2022 | June 15, 2022 | | | 2 | | 12* | | 2 | | |
| 48 | Arizona v. City and County of San Francisco, 596 U.S. 763 | February 23, 2022 | June 15, 2022 | | | | | | | | | |
| 49 | Carson v. Makin, 596 U.S. 767 | December 8, 2021 | June 21, 2022 | | | 1 | | 1*2 | 1 | | | |
| 50 | Shoop v. Twyford, 596 U.S. 811 | April 26, 2022 | June 21, 2022 | | | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 2 | | |
| 51 | United States v. Washington, 596 U.S. 832 | April 18, 2022 | June 21, 2022 | | | | | | | | | |
| 52 | United States v. Taylor, 596 U.S. 845 | December 7, 2021 | June 21, 2022 | | 1 | | 2 | | | | | |
| 53 | Marietta Memorial Hospital Employee Health Benefit Plan v. DaVita Inc., 596 U.S. 880 | March 1, 2022 | June 21, 2022 | | | | | | | | | |
| 54 | New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 | November 3, 2021 | June 23, 2022 | 2 | | | 1 | | | | 2 | 3 |
| 55 | Vega v. Tekoh, 597 U.S. 134 | March 21, 2022 | June 23, 2022 | | | | | | | | | |
| 56 | Nance v. Ward, 597 U.S. 159 | April 25, 2022 | June 23, 2022 | | | | | | | | | |
| 57 | Berger v. North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, 597 U.S. 179 | March 21, 2022 | June 23, 2022 | | | | | | | | | |
| 58 | Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, 597 U.S. 215 | December 1, 2021 | June 24, 2022 | 3 | 1 | | | | | | 2 | |
| 59 | Becerra v. Empire Health Foundation, For Valley Hospital Medical Center, 597 U.S. 424 | November 29, 2021 | June 24, 2022 | | | | | | | | | |
| 60 | Ruan v. United States, 597 U.S. 450 | March 1, 2022 | June 27, 2022 | | | | | | | | | * |
| 61 | Concepcion v. United States, 597 U.S. 481 | January 19, 2022 | June 27, 2022 | | | | | | | | | |
| 62 | Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, 597 U.S. 507 | April 25, 2022 | June 27, 2022 | | 1 | | 2 | | | | * | |
| 63 | Torres v. Texas Department of Public Safety, 597 U.S. 580 | March 29, 2022 | June 29, 2022 | | | | | | | | | |
| 64 | Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta, 597 U.S. 629 | April 27, 2022 | June 29, 2022 | | | | | | | | | |
| 65 | West Virginia v. EPA, 597 U.S. 697 | February 28, 2022 | June 30, 2022 | | | | | | | | | |
| 66 | Biden v. Texas, 597 U.S. 785 | April 26, 2022 | June 30, 2022 | | 12* | | 12* | | | 12* | | 2 |
| # | Case name and citation | Argued | Decided | Roberts | Thomas | Breyer | Alito | Sotomayor | Kagan | Gorsuch | Kavanaugh | Barrett |

## 2021 term membership and statistics

This was the seventeenth term of Chief Justice Roberts's tenure. Justice Breyer retired on June 30, 2022, making it the second and final (and also the only full) term with the same membership. The seat was filled by Ketanji Brown Jackson on the same day.
| Justice | Justice | Appointment history | Appointment history | Agreement with judgment | Agreement with judgment | Opinions filed | Opinions filed | Opinions filed | Opinions filed | Opinions filed |
| Seniority | Name | President | Date confirmed | % | # | | | | | Total |
| Chief Justice | John Roberts | George W. Bush | September 29, 2005 | 93.9% | 62/66 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 12 |
| Associate Justice | Clarence Thomas | George H. W. Bush | October 15, 1991 | 80.3% | 53/66 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 22 |
| Associate Justice | Stephen Breyer | Bill Clinton | August 3, 1994 | 66.7% | 44/66 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 16 |
| Associate Justice | Samuel Alito | George W. Bush | January 31, 2006 | 83.3% | 55/66 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 16 |
| Associate Justice | Sonia Sotomayor | Barack Obama | August 6, 2009 | 57.6% | 38/66 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 25 |
| Associate Justice | Elena Kagan | Barack Obama | August 7, 2010 | 66.7% | 44/66 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 16 |
| Associate Justice | Neil Gorsuch | Donald Trump | April 7, 2017 | 75.8% | 50/66 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 21 |
| Associate Justice | Brett Kavanaugh | Donald Trump | October 6, 2018 | 95.5% | 63/66 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 15 |
| Associate Justice | Amy Coney Barrett | Donald Trump | October 26, 2020 | 90.5% | 57/63 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 12 |
| 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. Individual opinion counts will not match the Court's totals; the dissents in National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization that were jointly authored by Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan are counted separately for all three justices but counted only once in the Court's totals. | 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. Individual opinion counts will not match the Court's totals; the dissents in National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization that were jointly authored by Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan are counted separately for all three justices but counted only once in the Court's totals. | 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. Individual opinion counts will not match the Court's totals; the dissents in National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization that were jointly authored by Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan are counted separately for all three justices but counted only once in the Court's totals. | 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. Individual opinion counts will not match the Court's totals; the dissents in National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization that were jointly authored by Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan are counted separately for all three justices but counted only once in the Court's totals. | 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. Individual opinion counts will not match the Court's totals; the dissents in National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization that were jointly authored by Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan are counted separately for all three justices but counted only once in the Court's totals. | 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. Individual opinion counts will not match the Court's totals; the dissents in National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization that were jointly authored by Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan are counted separately for all three justices but counted only once in the Court's totals. | Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals |
| 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. Individual opinion counts will not match the Court's totals; the dissents in National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization that were jointly authored by Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan are counted separately for all three justices but counted only once in the Court's totals. | 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. Individual opinion counts will not match the Court's totals; the dissents in National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization that were jointly authored by Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan are counted separately for all three justices but counted only once in the Court's totals. | 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. Individual opinion counts will not match the Court's totals; the dissents in National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization that were jointly authored by Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan are counted separately for all three justices but counted only once in the Court's totals. | 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. Individual opinion counts will not match the Court's totals; the dissents in National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization that were jointly authored by Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan are counted separately for all three justices but counted only once in the Court's totals. | 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. Individual opinion counts will not match the Court's totals; the dissents in National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization that were jointly authored by Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan are counted separately for all three justices but counted only once in the Court's totals. | 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. Individual opinion counts will not match the Court's totals; the dissents in National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization that were jointly authored by Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan are counted separately for all three justices but counted only once in the Court's totals. | 58 | 38 | 8 | 45 | 149 |