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Term recap

October Term 2017 in review

Every writing the Court issued during October Term 2017, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.

76
Merits decisions
22
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
28
Decision days

The term's first merits decision came down November 6, 2017 and the last on June 28, 2018. The busiest single day was June 22, 2018 with 6 decisions.

Merits decisions, month by month

December 2017 · 1 decision

📜 Cert-stage statements

Statements by individual Justices respecting or dissenting from the grant or denial of certiorari, not decisions of the Court.


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Holding lines are from the syllabi prepared by the Reporter of Decisions and are not part of the Court's opinions. Case data from supremecourt.gov and CourtListener (Free Law Project). SCOTUS Alerts is an independent project, not affiliated with the U.S. Supreme Court.