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Supreme Court Opinions — October Term 2005

Most-cited Supreme Court opinions filed in October Term 2005 (October 1, 2005 to September 30, 2006), from CourtListener's bulk data. CourtListener's bulk data has 693 records for this term with at least one citation or a syllabus (693 with at least one citation, 0 with a syllabus, counted separately); up to 100 of them, ordered by citation count, are listed below.

All Supreme Court records in the CourtListener bulk data

  1. June 22, 2006· cited 8,220×
    Woodford v. Ngo
  2. June 22, 2006· cited 7,269×
    Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. White
  3. February 22, 2006· cited 6,493×
    Arbaugh v. Y & H Corp.
  4. June 19, 2006· cited 4,179×
    Davis v. Washington
  5. May 30, 2006· cited 2,871×
    Garcetti v. Ceballos
  6. May 15, 2006· cited 2,657×
    DaimlerChrysler Corp. v. Cuno
  7. December 7, 2005· cited 2,624×
    Martin v. Franklin Capital Corp.
  8. June 12, 2006· cited 2,367×
    House v. Bell
  9. May 22, 2006· cited 2,237×
    Brigham City v. Stuart
  10. June 26, 2006· cited 1,863×
    United States v. Gonzalez-Lopez
  11. February 21, 2006· cited 1,641×
    Buckeye Check Cashing, Inc. v. Cardegna
  12. April 26, 2006· cited 1,622×
    Hartman v. Moore
  13. April 25, 2006· cited 1,511×
    Day v. McDonough
  14. May 15, 2006· cited 1,413×
    Ebay Inc. v. Mercexchange, L. L. C.
  15. May 1, 2006· cited 1,409×
    Holmes v. South Carolina
  16. November 28, 2005· cited 1,275×
    Bradshaw v. Richey
  17. June 15, 2006· cited 1,235×
    Empire Healthchoice Assurance, Inc. v. McVeigh
  18. June 15, 2006· cited 1,222×
    Hudson v. Michigan
  19. November 29, 2005· cited 1,211×
    Lincoln Property Co. v. Roche
  20. March 22, 2006· cited 1,203×
    Georgia v. Randolph
  21. January 18, 2006· cited 1,140×
    Rice v. Collins
  22. June 26, 2006· cited 1,105×
    Washington v. Recuenco
  23. February 21, 2006· cited 983×
    Lance v. Dennis
  24. June 19, 2006· cited 982×
    Samson v. California
  25. March 6, 2006· cited 944×
    Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights, Inc.
  26. January 10, 2006· cited 909×
    United States v. Georgia
  27. April 26, 2006· cited 901×
    Jones v. Flowers
  28. October 31, 2005· cited 799×
    Eberhart v. United States
  29. November 14, 2005· cited 752×
    Schaffer Ex Rel. Schaffer v. Weast
  30. October 3, 2005· cited 728×
    Llerena v. United States
  31. February 21, 2006· cited 713×
    Gonzales v. O Centro Espírita Beneficente União Do Vegetal
  32. May 1, 2006· cited 695×
    Marshall v. Marshall
  33. June 12, 2006· cited 658×
    Hill v. McDonough
  34. February 22, 2006· cited 655×
    Dolan v. United States Postal Service
  35. January 17, 2006· cited 636×
    Wachovia Bank, National Ass'n v. Schmidt
  36. January 17, 2006· cited 632×
    Gonzales v. Oregon
  37. June 5, 2006· cited 587×
    Anza v. Ideal Steel Supply Corp.
  38. February 22, 2006· cited 573×
    Domino's Pizza, Inc. v. McDonald
  39. November 8, 2005· cited 567×
    IBP, Inc. v. Alvarez
  40. March 21, 2006· cited 550×
    Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc. v. Dabit
  41. June 26, 2006· cited 528×
    Arlington Central School District Board of Education v. Murphy
  42. January 18, 2006· cited 526×
    Will v. Hallock
  43. June 5, 2006· cited 522×
    Zedner v. United States
  44. January 23, 2006· cited 513×
    Unitherm Food Systems, Inc. v. Swift-Eckrich, Inc.
  45. April 17, 2006· cited 486×
    Gonzales v. Thomas
  46. June 28, 2006· cited 451×
    Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon
  47. February 21, 2006· cited 447×
    Ash v. Tyson Foods, Inc.
  48. March 21, 2006· cited 430×
    United States v. Grubbs
  49. June 22, 2006· cited 429×
    Fernandez-Vargas v. Gonzales
  50. January 23, 2006· cited 424×
    Central Virginia Community College v. Katz
  51. January 18, 2006· cited 423×
    Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New Eng.
  52. June 19, 2006· cited 416×
    Rapanos v. United States
  53. June 29, 2006· cited 395×
    Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
  54. January 10, 2006· cited 376×
    Evans v. Chavis
  55. May 15, 2006· cited 365×
    Sereboff v. Mid Atlantic Medical Services, Inc.
  56. June 26, 2006· cited 332×
    Kansas v. Marsh
  57. June 15, 2006· cited 305×
    Kircher v. Putnam Funds Trust
  58. June 28, 2006· cited 297×
    League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry
  59. June 19, 2006· cited 288×
    Youngblood v. West Virginia
  60. May 1, 2006· cited 286×
    Arkansas Department of Health & Human Services v. Ahlborn
  61. November 8, 2005· cited 282×
    United States v. Olson
  62. February 28, 2006· cited 271×
    Texaco Inc. v. Dagher
  63. June 26, 2006· cited 254×
    Randall v. Sorrell
  64. June 29, 2006· cited 249×
    Clark v. Arizona
  65. March 1, 2006· cited 216×
    Illinois Tool Works Inc. v. Independent Ink, Inc.
  66. October 3, 2005· cited 207×
    Miller-Bates v. Wachovia Bank
  67. June 15, 2006· cited 194×
    Howard Delivery Service, Inc. v. Zurich American Insurance
  68. January 11, 2006· cited 188×
    Brown v. Sanders
  69. April 25, 2006· cited 166×
    Northern Ins. Co. of NY v. Chatham County
  70. February 22, 2006· cited 145×
    Oregon v. Guzek
  71. October 3, 2005· cited 145×
    Asberry v. United States
  72. May 15, 2006· cited 143×
    S. D. Warren Co. v. Maine Board of Environmental Protection
  73. October 11, 2005· cited 120×
    Dye v. Hofbauer
  74. June 22, 2006· cited 117×
    Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings v. Metabolite Laboratories, Inc.
  75. October 11, 2005· cited 103×
    Toroguet-Cervantes v. United States
  76. October 31, 2005· cited 99×
    Kane v. Garcia Espitia
  77. November 14, 2005· cited 91×
    Millan-Torres v. United States
  78. January 10, 2006· cited 90×
    Volvo Trucks North America, Inc. v. Reeder-Simco GMC, Inc.
  79. December 6, 2005· cited 85×
    Wagnon v. Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation
  80. October 17, 2005· cited 80×
    Schriro v. Smith
  81. November 28, 2005· cited 62×
    Barron-Torres v. United States
  82. October 3, 2005· cited 61×
    Globe Newspaper Co. v. Ayash
  83. October 31, 2005· cited 54×
    Huckaby v. New York State Division of Tax Appeals
  84. October 3, 2005· cited 53×
    Hamzah v. Federal Express Ground Package System, Inc.
  85. February 21, 2006· cited 52×
    Ledbetter v. Lantz
  86. January 23, 2006· cited 48×
    Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc. v. Federal Election Commission
  87. October 3, 2005· cited 47×
    Gyory v. Reebok International, Ltd.
  88. October 3, 2005· cited 45×
    Sanders v. Dretke
  89. November 28, 2005· cited 40×
    Gibson v. Oregon
  90. November 14, 2005· cited 40×
    Badillo-Rangel v. United States
  91. June 5, 2006· cited 39×
    Whitman v. Department of Transportation
  92. January 9, 2006· cited 37×
    Diaz-Diaz v. United States
  93. January 18, 2006· cited 35×
    Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood
  94. October 3, 2005· cited 35×
    Jiayang Hua v. University of Utah
  95. February 27, 2006· cited 34×
    Soria-Gobea v. United States
  96. June 12, 2006· cited 31×
    Artus v. Gersten
  97. January 9, 2006· cited 28×
    Spector Gadon & Rosen, P. C. v. Kanter
  98. June 12, 2006· cited 27×
    Fowler v. Indiana
  99. October 17, 2005· cited 27×
    Vertrue Inc. v. Medvalusa Health Programs, Inc.
  100. October 3, 2005· cited 27×
    Wyoming Sawmills, Inc. v. United States Forest Service

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