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. ___		October 18, 2021
2	City of Tahlequah v. Bond , 595 U.S. ___		October 18, 2021
3	Mississippi v. Tennessee , 595 U.S. ___	October 4, 2021	November 22, 2021
4	Whole Woman's Health v. Jackson , 595 U.S. ___	November 1, 2021	December 10, 2021	2	* 1	2 3		2 3	2 3	*
5	United States v. Texas , [1] 595 U.S. ___	November 1, 2021	December 10, 2021					-
6	Babcock v. Kijakazi , 595 U.S. ___	October 13, 2021	January 13, 2022
7	Biden v. Missouri , 595 U.S. ___	January 7, 2022	January 13, 2022		1 2		1 2			1 2		1 2
8	National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration , 595 U.S. ___	January 7, 2022	January 13, 2022
9	Hemphill v. New York , 595 U.S. ___	October 5, 2021	January 20, 2022
10	Hughes v. Northwestern University , 595 U.S. ___	December 6, 2021	January 24, 2022
11	Unicolors, Inc v. H&M Hennes & Mauritz, LP , 595 U.S. ___	November 8, 2021	February 24, 2022							*
12	United States v. Zubaydah , 595 U.S. ___	October 6, 2021	March 3, 2022		* 1	*	* 1		*		* 2	* 2
13	Cameron v. EMW Women's Surgical Center, P.S.C. , 595 U.S. ___	October 12, 2021	March 3, 2022		1	2			2
14	United States v. Tsarnaev , 595 U.S. ___	October 13, 2021	March 4, 2022					*	*
15	Federal Bureau of Investigation v. Fazaga , 595 U.S. ___	November 8, 2021	March 4, 2022
16	Wooden v. United States , 595 U.S. ___	October 4, 2021	March 7, 2022		* 3		*	1 4*		4	2	* 3
17	Wisconsin Legislature v. Wisconsin Elections Commission , 595 U.S. ___		March 23, 2022
18	Ramirez v. Collier , 595 U.S. ___	November 9, 2021	March 24, 2022					1			2
19	Houston Community College System v. Wilson , 595 U.S. ___	November 2, 2021	March 24, 2022
20	Badgerow v. Walters , 596 U.S. ___	November 2, 2021	March 31, 2022
21	Thompson v. Clark , 596 U.S. ___	October 12, 2021	April 4, 2022
22	City of Austin v. Reagan National Advertising of Austin, LLC , 596 U.S. ___	November 10, 2021	April 21, 2022
23	Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation , 596 U.S. ___	January 18, 2022	April 21, 2022
24	Brown v. Davenport , 596 U.S. ___	October 5, 2021	April 21, 2022
25	United States v. Vaello Madero , 596 U.S. ___	October 5, 2021	April 21, 2022		1					2
26	Boechler v. Commissioner , 596 U.S. ___	January 12, 2022	April 21, 2022
27	Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller, P.L.L.C. , 596 U.S. ___	November 30, 2021	April 28, 2022
28	LeDure v. Union Pacific Railroad Company , [2] 596 U.S. ___	March 28, 2022	April 28, 2022
29	Shurtleff v. Boston , 596 U.S. ___	January 18, 2022	May 2, 2022		2 3		2			2 3	1
30	FEC v. Ted Cruz for Senate , 596 U.S. ___	January 19, 2022	May 16, 2022
31	Patel v. Garland , 596 U.S. ___	December 6, 2021	May 16, 2022
32	Shinn v. Ramirez , 596 U.S. ___	December 8, 2021	May 23, 2022
33	Morgan v. Sundance, Inc. , 596 U.S. ___	March 21, 2022	May 23, 2022
34	Gallardo v. Marstiller , 596 U.S. ___	January 10, 2022	June 6, 2022
35	Southwest Airlines Co. v. Saxon , 596 U.S. ___	March 28, 2022	June 6, 2022
36	Siegel v. Fitzgerald , 596 U.S. ___	April 18, 2022	June 6, 2022
37	Egbert v. Boule , 596 U.S. ___	March 2, 2022	June 8, 2022
38	Kemp v. United States , 596 U.S. ___	April 19, 2022	June 13, 2022
39	Garland v. Gonzalez , 596 U.S. ___	January 11, 2022	June 13, 2022			*
40	Johnson v. Arteaga-Martinez , 596 U.S. ___	January 11, 2022	June 13, 2022							*
41	Denezpi v. United States , 596 U.S. ___	February 22, 2022	June 13, 2022					*	*
42	ZF Automotive U. S., Inc. v. Luxshare, Ltd. , 596 U.S. ___	March 23, 2022	June 13, 2022
43	Viking River Cruises, Inc. v. Moriana , 596 U.S. ___	March 30, 2022	June 15, 2022	* 2*				1			* 2	* 2
44	Golan v. Saada , 596 U.S. ___	March 22, 2022	June 15, 2022
45	Ysleta del Sur Pueblo v. Texas , 596 U.S. ___	February 22, 2022	June 15, 2022
46	American Hospital Association v. Becerra , 596 U.S. ___	November 30, 2021	June 15, 2022
47	George v. McDonough , 596 U.S. ___	April 19, 2022	June 15, 2022			2		1 2*		2
48	Arizona v. City and County of San Francisco , [3] 596 U.S. ___	February 23, 2022	June 15, 2022
49	Carson v. Makin , 596 U.S. ___	December 8, 2021	June 21, 2022			1		1* 2	1
50	Shoop v. Twyford , 596 U.S. ___	April 26, 2022	June 21, 2022			1		1	1	2
51	United States v. Washington , 596 U.S. ___	April 18, 2022	June 21, 2022
52	United States v. Taylor , 596 U.S. ___	December 7, 2021	June 21, 2022		1		2
53	Marietta Memorial Hospital Employee Health Benefit Plan v. DaVita Inc. , 596 U.S. ___	March 1, 2022	June 21, 2022
54	New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen , 597 U.S. ___	November 3, 2021	June 23, 2022	2			1				2	3
55	Vega v. Tekoh , 597 U.S. ___	March 21, 2022	June 23, 2022
56	Nance v. Ward , 597 U.S. ___	April 25, 2022	June 23, 2022
57	Berger v. North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP , 597 U.S. ___	March 21, 2022	June 23, 2022
58	Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization , 597 U.S. ___	December 1, 2021	June 24, 2022	3	1						2
59	Becerra v. Empire Health Foundation, For Valley Hospital Medical Center , 597 U.S. ___	November 29, 2021	June 24, 2022
60	Ruan v. United States , 597 U.S. ___	March 1, 2022	June 27, 2022									*
61	Concepcion v. United States , 597 U.S. ___	January 19, 2022	June 27, 2022
62	Kennedy v. Bremerton School District , 597 U.S. ___	April 25, 2022	June 27, 2022		1		2				*
63	Torres v. Texas Department of Public Safety , 597 U.S. ___	March 29, 2022	June 29, 2022
64	Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta , 597 U.S. ___	April 27, 2022	June 29, 2022
65	West Virginia v. EPA , 597 U.S. ___	February 28, 2022	June 30, 2022
66	Biden v. Texas , 597 U.S. ___	April 26, 2022	June 30, 2022		1 2*		1 2*			1 2*		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		Appointment history		Agreement with judgment		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.						Totals
						58	38	8	45	149

Notes

1. In United States v. Texas , 595 U.S. ___ (2021), the Court dismissed the writ of certiorari as improvidently granted.
2. The Court's per curiam opinion in LeDure v. Union Pacific Railroad Company, 596 U.S. ___ (2022), noted that the judgment was affirmed by an equally divided Court.
3. In Arizona v. City and County of San Francisco , 596 U.S. ___ (2022), the Court dismissed the writ of certiorari as improvidently granted.

References

• "2021 Term Opinions of the Court". Supreme Court of the United States . Retrieved June 30, 2022.
• "2021 Term Court Calendar" (PDF). Supreme Court of the United States . Retrieved September 21, 2021.