Supreme Court Opinions — October Term 2002
Most-cited Supreme Court opinions filed in October Term 2002 (October 1, 2002 to September 30, 2003), from CourtListener's bulk data. CourtListener's bulk data has 884 records for this term with at least one citation or a syllabus (884 with at least one citation, 0 with a syllabus, counted separately); up to 100 of them, ordered by citation count, are listed below.
- February 25, 2003· cited 27,550×Miller-El v. Cockrell
- June 26, 2003· cited 5,961×Wiggins v. Smith, Warden
- March 5, 2003· cited 4,077×Lockyer v. Andrade
- November 4, 2002· cited 3,361×Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Ventura
- April 23, 2003· cited 3,337×Massaro v. United States
- April 7, 2003· cited 2,318×State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Campbell
- November 4, 2002· cited 2,207×Woodford v. Visciotti
- December 10, 2002· cited 1,948×Howsam v. Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc.
- November 4, 2002· cited 1,657×Early v. Packer
- June 9, 2003· cited 1,575×Desert Palace, Inc. v. Costa
- March 5, 2003· cited 1,555×Ewing v. California
- March 5, 2003· cited 1,492×Smith v. Doe
- June 26, 2003· cited 1,452×Lawrence v. Texas
- November 5, 2002· cited 1,396×Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc. v. Henson
- April 29, 2003· cited 1,378×Demore v. Kim
- May 27, 2003· cited 1,373×Black & Decker Disability Plan v. Nord
- March 4, 2003· cited 1,159×Clay v. United States
- June 2, 2003· cited 1,134×Beneficial National Bank v. Anderson
- April 7, 2003· cited 1,109×Virginia v. Black
- June 16, 2003· cited 1,055×Sell v. United States
- June 16, 2003· cited 1,052×Overton v. Bazzetta
- May 27, 2003· cited 927×National Park Hospitality Association v. Department of the Interior
- May 27, 2003· cited 899×Chavez v. Martinez
- March 25, 2003· cited 823×Woodford v. Garceau
- March 4, 2003· cited 738×United States v. White Mountain Apache Tribe
- June 23, 2003· cited 668×Grutter v. Bollinger
- June 16, 2003· cited 643×Virginia v. Hicks
- June 23, 2003· cited 523×Green Tree Financial Corp. v. Bazzle
- May 27, 2003· cited 510×Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbs
- March 5, 2003· cited 487×Connecticut Department of Public Safety v. Doe
- June 2, 2003· cited 486×Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.
- April 22, 2003· cited 464×Dole Food Co. v. Patrickson
- May 19, 2003· cited 456×Price, Warden v. Vincent
- June 23, 2003· cited 444×Gratz v. Bollinger
- June 2, 2003· cited 429×Citizens Bank v. Alafabco, Inc.
- February 25, 2003· cited 422×Washington State Department of Social & Health Services v. Guardianship Estate of Keffeler
- January 15, 2003· cited 416×Barnhart v. Peabody Coal Co.
- May 5, 2003· cited 414×Kaupp v. Texas
- January 22, 2003· cited 412×Meyer v. Holley
- January 14, 2003· cited 379×Sattazahn v. Pennsylvania
- December 3, 2002· cited 377×Sprietsma v. Mercury Marine
- June 26, 2003· cited 356×Stogner v. California
- February 26, 2003· cited 336×Scheidler v. National Organization for Women, Inc.
- April 22, 2003· cited 325×Clackamas Gastroenterology Associates, P. C. v. Wells
- April 29, 2003· cited 321×Roell v. Withrow
- June 23, 2003· cited 319×American Ins. Assn. v. Garamendi
- March 26, 2003· cited 294×Brown v. Legal Foundation of Washington
- May 19, 2003· cited 285×Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America v. Walsh, Acting Commissioner, Maine Department of Human Services
- March 10, 2003· cited 281×Cook County v. United States Ex Rel. Chandler
- March 31, 2003· cited 257×Branch v. Smith
- April 2, 2003· cited 243×Kentucky Assn. of Health Plans, Inc. v. Miller
- January 15, 2003· cited 226×Eldred v. Ashcroft
- April 7, 2003· cited 222×PacifiCare Health Systems, Inc. v. Book
- January 27, 2003· cited 214×Federal Communications Commission v. Nextwave Personal Communications Inc.
- June 23, 2003· cited 205×United States v. American Library Assn., Inc.
- March 10, 2003· cited 204×Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Ayers
- March 4, 2003· cited 197×Moseley v. v. Secret Catalogue, Inc.
- April 22, 2003· cited 187×Jinks v. Richland County
- March 25, 2003· cited 179×City of Cuyahoga Falls v. Buckeye Community Hope Foundation
- June 16, 2003· cited 176×Federal Election Commission v. Beaumont
- March 31, 2003· cited 155×Archer v. Warner
- January 14, 2003· cited 154×Pierce County v. Guillen
- June 9, 2003· cited 149×Fitzgerald v. Racing Assn. of Central Iowa
- June 9, 2003· cited 140×Nguyen v. United States
- June 26, 2003· cited 134×Georgia v. Ashcroft, Attorney General
- May 5, 2003· cited 125×Illinois Ex Rel. Madigan, Attorney General of Illinois v. Telemarketing Associates, Inc.
- May 19, 2003· cited 123×Inyo County, California v. Paiute-Shoshone Indians of the Bishop Community of the Bishop Colony
- May 19, 2003· cited 122×Breuer v. Jim's Concrete of Brevard, Inc.
- January 21, 2003· cited 121×United States v. Jimenez Recio
- December 10, 2002· cited 107×United States v. Bean
- May 19, 2003· cited 92×City of Los Angeles v. David
- January 13, 2003· cited 81×Gandarela v. Johnson, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Facility
- December 2, 2002· cited 78×Aig Life Insurance Co. v. Padfield
- May 27, 2003· cited 65×Bunkley v. Florida
- October 7, 2002· cited 64×Gonzalez Et Vir v. State Bar of California
- June 2, 2003· cited 61×Entergy Louisiana, Inc. v. Louisiana Public Service Commission
- January 13, 2003· cited 53×Brown v. Lakeside Dental Care
- October 7, 2002· cited 51×Davis v. Curtis, Warden
- October 7, 2002· cited 49×Singh v. Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education of California
- June 9, 2003· cited 47×Dow Chemical Co. v. Stephenson
- April 21, 2003· cited 46×Childress v. Cockrell, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division
- October 7, 2002· cited 46×Riley v. Emery Worldwide Airlines
- February 24, 2003· cited 44×Chavez-Miranda v. United States
- March 21, 2003· cited 42×Kenyeres v. Ashcroft, Attorney General
- June 9, 2003· cited 41×Cooper v. Roper, Superintendent, Potosi Correctional Center
- January 13, 2003· cited 39×Lopez-Ortiz v. United States
- June 9, 2003· cited 38×Hillside Dairy Inc. v. Lyons
- April 21, 2003· cited 38×Harris-Pittman v. Nash County Department of Social Services
- October 15, 2002· cited 38×Brown v. United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana
- June 26, 2003· cited 37×Nike, Inc. v. Kasky
- November 5, 2002· cited 36×Yellow Transportation, Inc. v. Michigan
- March 4, 2003· cited 35×Boeing Co. v. United States
- October 7, 2002· cited 34×Simple Technology, Inc. v. Dense-Pac Micro-Systems, Inc
- December 16, 2002· cited 31×University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio v. Siler-Khodr
- April 21, 2003· cited 29×Duncan v. General Motors Corp.
- March 24, 2003· cited 27×Scialla v. Pascack Valley Hospital
- November 18, 2002· cited 26×Uresti Rojas v. Cockrell, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division
- May 19, 2003· cited 25×Dantzler v. City of Hammond, Louisiana
- March 10, 2003· cited 25×Wright v. Crosby
- October 21, 2002· cited 24×Foster v. Florida
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