2019 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States

The 2019 term of the Supreme Court of the United States began October 7, 2019, and concluded October 4, 2020. 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.

2019 term opinions

#	Case name and citation	Argued	Decided	Roberts	Thomas	Ginsburg	Breyer	Alito	Sotomayor	Kagan	Gorsuch	Kavanaugh
1	Thompson v. Hebdon, 589 U.S. ___		November 25, 2019
2	Rotkiske v. Klemm, 589 U.S. ___	October 16, 2019	December 10, 2019
3	Peter v. NantKwest, Inc., 589 U.S. ___	October 7, 2019	December 10, 2019
4	Ritzen Group, Inc. v. Jackson Masonry, LLC, 589 U.S. ___	November 13, 2019	January 14, 2020
5	Retirement Plans Comm. of IBM v. Jander, 589 U.S. ___	November 6, 2019	January 14, 2020			1				1	2
6	Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Juan v. Acevedo Feliciano, 589 U.S. ___		February 24, 2020
7	Monasky v. Taglieri, 589 U.S. ___	December 11, 2019	February 25, 2020		* 1			2
8	Hernandez v. Mesa, 589 U.S. ___	November 12, 2019	February 25, 2020
9	Rodriguez v. FDIC, 589 U.S. ___	December 3, 2019	February 25, 2020
10	McKinney v. Arizona, 589 U.S. ___	December 11, 2019	February 25, 2020
11	Shular v. United States, 589 U.S. ___	January 21, 2020	February 26, 2020
12	Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, 589 U.S. ___	December 10, 2019	February 26, 2020
13	Intel Corp. Investment Policy Comm. v. Sulyma, 589 U.S. ___	December 4, 2019	February 26, 2020
14	Kansas v. Garcia, 589 U.S. ___	October 16, 2019	March 3, 2020
15	Guerrero-Lasprilla v. Barr, 589 U.S. ___	December 9, 2019	March 23, 2020					*
16	Allen v. Cooper, 589 U.S. ___	November 5, 2019	March 23, 2020		* 1	2	2
17	Kahler v. Kansas, 589 U.S. ___	October 7, 2019	March 23, 2020
18	Comcast Corp. v. National Assn. of African-American Owned Media, 589 U.S. ___	November 13, 2019	March 23, 2020			*
19	Davis v. United States, 589 U.S. ___		March 23, 2020
20	CITGO Asphalt Refining Co. v. Frescati Shipping Co., 589 U.S. ___	November 5, 2019	March 30, 2020
21	Kansas v. Glover, 589 U.S. ___	November 4, 2019	April 6, 2020
22	Babb v. Wilkie, 589 U.S. ___	January 15, 2020	April 6, 2020			*
23	Republican National Committee v. Democratic National Committee, 589 U.S. ___		April 6, 2020
24	Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Christian, 590 U.S. ___	December 3, 2019	April 20, 2020		* 2			* 1			* 2
25	Thryv, Inc. v. Click-To-Call Technologies, LP, 590 U.S. ___	December 9, 2019	April 20, 2020		*			*	*
26	Ramos v. Louisiana, 590 U.S. ___	October 7, 2019	April 20, 2020		1				* 2	*	*	* 3
27	County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, 590 U.S. ___	November 6, 2019	April 23, 2020		1			2			1
28	Romag Fasteners, Inc. v. Fossil, Inc., 590 U.S. ___	January 14, 2020	April 23, 2020				1	1	2	1
29	Barton v. Barr, 590 U.S. ___	November 4, 2019	April 23, 2020
30	Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc., 590 U.S. ___	December 2, 2019	April 27, 2020		1	2	1* 2	1
31	Maine Community Health Options v. United States, 590 U.S. ___	December 10, 2019	April 27, 2020		*						*
32	New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. City of New York, 590 U.S. ___	December 2, 2019	April 27, 2020		*
33	United States v. Sineneng-Smith, 590 U.S. ___	February 25, 2020	May 7, 2020
34	Kelly v. United States, 590 U.S. ___	January 14, 2020	May 7, 2020
35	Lucky Brand Dungarees, Inc. v. Marcel Fashions Group, Inc., 590 U.S. ___	January 13, 2020	May 14, 2020
36	Opati v. Republic of Sudan, 590 U.S. ___	February 24, 2020	May 18, 2020
37	GE Energy Power Conversion France SAS v. Outokumpu Stainless USA, LLC, 590 U.S. ___	January 21, 2020	June 1, 2020
38	Financial Oversight and Mngmt Bd. for Puerto Rico v. Aurelius Investment, LLC, 590 U.S. ___	October 15, 2019	June 1, 2020		1				2
39	Banister v. Davis, 590 U.S. ___	December 4, 2019	June 1, 2020
40	Thole v. U.S. Bank N.A., 590 U.S. ___	January 13, 2020	June 1, 2020
41	Nasrallah v. Barr, 590 U.S. ___	March 2, 2020	June 1, 2020
42	Lomax v. Ortiz-Marquez, 590 U.S. ___	February 26, 2020	June 8, 2020		*
43	United States Forest Service v. Cowpasture River Preservation Assn., 590 U.S. ___	February 24, 2020	June 15, 2020			*
44	Bostock v. Clayton County, 590 U.S. ___	October 8, 2019	June 15, 2020		1			1				2
45	Andrus v. Texas, 590 U.S. ___		June 15, 2020
46	Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of Univ. of Cal., 591 U.S. ___	November 12, 2019	June 18, 2020	*	1			1 2	* 3		1	4
47	Liu v. SEC, 591 U.S. ___	March 3, 2020	June 22, 2020
48	Department of Homeland Security v. Thuraissigiam, 591 U.S. ___	March 2, 2020	June 25, 2020		1	2	2
49	Seila Law v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 591 U.S. ___	March 3, 2020	June 29, 2020	*	* 1	2	2		2	2	* 1
50	June Medical Services, LLC v. Russo, 591 U.S. ___	March 4, 2020	June 29, 2020		1 2*		*	2			2 3	2* 4
51	USAID v. Alliance for Open Society (2020), 591 U.S. ___	May 5, 2020	June 29, 2020
52	Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, 591 U.S. ___	January 22, 2020	June 30, 2020		1	1	2	2	3	1 2*	1 3
53	Patent and Trademark Office v. Booking.com B. V., 591 U.S. ___	May 4, 2020	June 30, 2020
54	Chiafalo v. Washington, 591 U.S. ___	May 13, 2020	July 6, 2020								*
55	Barr v. American Assn. of Political Consultants, Inc., 591 U.S. ___	May 6, 2020	July 6, 2020		* 2*	1	1			1	2	*
56	Colorado Dept. of State v. Baca,[1] 591 U.S. ___	May 13, 2020	July 6, 2020		-
57	Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania, 591 U.S. ___	May 6, 2020	July 8, 2020				2	1		2	1
58	Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru, 591 U.S. ___	May 11, 2020	July 8, 2020
59	Trump v. Vance, 591 U.S. ___	May 12, 2020	July 9, 2020		1			2
60	Trump v. Mazars USA, LLP, 591 U.S. ___	May 12, 2020	July 9, 2020		1			2
61	McGirt v. Oklahoma, 591 U.S. ___	May 11, 2020	July 9, 2020	1	1* 2			1				1
62	Sharp v. Murphy,[2] 591 U.S. ___	November 27, 2018	July 9, 2020		-			-
63	Barr v. Lee, 591 U.S. ___		July 14, 2020			1 2	1		2	2
#	Case name and citation	Argued	Decided	Roberts	Thomas	Ginsburg	Breyer	Alito	Sotomayor	Kagan	Gorsuch	Kavanaugh

2019 term membership and statistics

This was the fifteenth term of Chief Justice Roberts's tenure. Justice Ginsburg died on September 18, 2020, making it the second and final (and also the only full) term with the same membership.

Justice		Appointment history		Agreement with judgment		Opinions filed
Seniority	Name	President	Date confirmed	%	#						Total
Chief Justice	John Roberts	George W. Bush	September 29, 2005	96.8%	61/63	7	1	0	1	0	9
Associate Justice	Clarence Thomas	George H. W. Bush	October 15, 1991	68.3%	43/63	5	13	2	11	0	31
Associate Justice	Ruth Bader Ginsburg	Bill Clinton	August 10, 1993	74.6%	47/63	6	1	0	7	1	15
Associate Justice	Stephen Breyer	Bill Clinton	August 3, 1994	77.8%	49/63	5	2	2	5	0	14
Associate Justice	Samuel Alito	George W. Bush	January 31, 2006	71.4%	45/63	6	6	2	10	0	24
Associate Justice	Sonia Sotomayor	Barack Obama	August 6, 2009	71%	44/62	5	8	1	8	0	22
Associate Justice	Elena Kagan	Barack Obama	August 7, 2010	79%	49/62	6	3	1	0	0	10
Associate Justice	Neil Gorsuch	Donald Trump	April 7, 2017	85.5%	53/62	7	2	2	2	0	13
Associate Justice	Brett Kavanaugh	Donald Trump	October 6, 2018	93.5%	58/62	6	5	1	2	0	14
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
						53	41	11	46	1	170

Notes

1. In Colorado Dept. of State v. Baca, 591 U.S. ___ (2020), the Court reversed the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit's judgment for the reasons stated in Chiafalo v. Washington, 591 U.S. ___ (2020), which was handed down the same day.
2. In Sharp v. Murphy, 591 U.S. ___ (2020), the Court affirmed the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit's judgment for the reasons stated in McGirt v. Oklahoma, 591 U.S. ___ (2020), which was handed down the same day.

References

• "2019 Term Opinions of the Court". Supreme Court of the United States. Retrieved October 5, 2020.
• "2019 Term Court Calendar" (PDF). Supreme Court of the United States. Retrieved September 28, 2019.