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Supreme Court Opinions — October Term 2010

Most-cited Supreme Court opinions filed in October Term 2010 (October 1, 2010 to September 30, 2011), from CourtListener's bulk data. CourtListener's bulk data has 1,368 records for this term with at least one citation or a syllabus (1,368 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. January 19, 2011· cited 13,244×
    Harrington v. Richter
  2. April 4, 2011· cited 5,931×
    Cullen v. Pinholster
  3. June 20, 2011· cited 4,653×
    Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes
  4. June 27, 2011· cited 4,319×
    Goodyear Dunlop Tires Operations, S. A. v. Brown
  5. March 29, 2011· cited 4,276×
    Connick v. Thompson
  6. June 23, 2011· cited 2,206×
    Stern v. Marshall
  7. May 31, 2011· cited 1,740×
    Ashcroft v. al-Kidd
  8. June 6, 2011· cited 1,695×
    Fox v. Vice
  9. May 16, 2011· cited 1,457×
    Kentucky v. King
  10. March 1, 2011· cited 1,451×
    Henderson v. Shinseki
  11. March 7, 2011· cited 1,318×
    Skinner v. Switzer
  12. February 28, 2011· cited 1,277×
    Michigan v. Bryant
  13. January 24, 2011· cited 1,247×
    Swarthout v. Cooke
  14. June 23, 2011· cited 1,225×
    Bullcoming v. New Mexico
  15. March 1, 2011· cited 1,083×
    Staub v. Proctor Hospital
  16. March 22, 2011· cited 1,056×
    Matrixx Initiatives, Inc. v. Siracusano
  17. November 8, 2010· cited 1,004×
    Wilson v. Corcoran
  18. June 27, 2011· cited 953×
    J. McIntyre Machinery, Ltd. v. Nicastro
  19. March 2, 2011· cited 867×
    Snyder v. Phelps
  20. May 26, 2011· cited 853×
    Camreta v. Greene
  21. January 19, 2011· cited 839×
    Premo v. Moore
  22. June 9, 2011· cited 825×
    Microsoft Corp. v. i4i Ltd. Partnership
  23. March 2, 2011· cited 814×
    Pepper v. United States
  24. May 16, 2011· cited 744×
    CIGNA Corp. v. Amara
  25. June 23, 2011· cited 724×
    Freeman v. United States
  26. June 16, 2011· cited 716×
    Tapia v. United States
  27. April 20, 2011· cited 635×
    Sossamon v. Texas
  28. May 31, 2011· cited 600×
    Global-Tech Appliances, Inc. v. SEB S. A.
  29. June 27, 2011· cited 599×
    Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Assn.
  30. February 23, 2011· cited 567×
    Walker v. Martin
  31. June 16, 2011· cited 563×
    J. D. B. v. North Carolina
  32. January 24, 2011· cited 549×
    Ortiz v. Jordan
  33. May 23, 2011· cited 531×
    Brown v. Plata
  34. June 9, 2011· cited 517×
    Sykes v. United States
  35. June 23, 2011· cited 516×
    Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc.
  36. June 20, 2011· cited 470×
    Borough of Duryea v. Guarnieri
  37. June 6, 2011· cited 440×
    Erica P. John Fund, Inc. v. Halliburton Co.
  38. June 23, 2011· cited 428×
    PLIVA, Inc. v. Mensing
  39. May 26, 2011· cited 415×
    Chamber of Commerce of United States of America v. Whiting
  40. June 16, 2011· cited 410×
    Smith v. Bayer Corp.
  41. January 11, 2011· cited 410×
    Ransom v. FIA Card Services, N. A.
  42. June 20, 2011· cited 409×
    Turner v. Rogers
  43. June 13, 2011· cited 389×
    Janus Capital Group, Inc. v. First Derivative Traders
  44. April 26, 2011· cited 388×
    United States v. Tohono O’odham Nation
  45. November 15, 2010· cited 364×
    Abbott v. United States
  46. February 22, 2011· cited 334×
    Bruesewitz v. Wyeth LLC
  47. March 7, 2011· cited 328×
    Wall v. Kholi
  48. March 22, 2011· cited 319×
    Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp.
  49. March 21, 2011· cited 278×
    Felkner v. Jackson
  50. June 13, 2011· cited 259×
    United States v. Jicarilla Apache Nation
  51. January 24, 2011· cited 241×
    Chase Bank USA, N. A. v. McCoy
  52. March 1, 2011· cited 218×
    Federal Communications Commission v. AT&T Inc.
  53. March 29, 2011· cited 188×
    Astra USA, Inc. v. Santa Clara County
  54. June 27, 2011· cited 187×
    United States v. Juvenile Male
  55. June 6, 2011· cited 172×
    McNeill v. United States
  56. May 16, 2011· cited 149×
    Schindler Elevator Corp. v. United States ex rel. Kirk
  57. June 9, 2011· cited 144×
    Talk America, Inc. v. Michigan Bell Telephone Co.
  58. June 9, 2011· cited 138×
    DePierre v. United States
  59. June 13, 2011· cited 113×
    Nevada Commission on Ethics v. Carrigan
  60. May 26, 2011· cited 112×
    Fowler v. United States
  61. November 30, 2010· cited 104×
    Los Angeles County v. Humphries
  62. June 27, 2011· cited 97×
    Arizona Free Enterprise Club’s Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett
  63. May 26, 2011· cited 84×
    United States v. Tinklenberg
  64. June 6, 2011· cited 83×
    Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.
  65. January 24, 2011· cited 82×
    Thompson v. North American Stainless, LP
  66. April 4, 2011· cited 73×
    Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn
  67. March 7, 2011· cited 54×
    Milner v. Department of the Navy
  68. April 19, 2011· cited 48×
    Virginia Office for Protection & Advocacy v. Stewart
  69. April 4, 2011· cited 46×
    City of Reno v. Conn
  70. June 23, 2011· cited 45×
    CSX Transportation, Inc. v. McBride
  71. May 2, 2011· cited 42×
    Montana v. Wyoming
  72. May 23, 2011· cited 41×
    General Dynamics Corp. v. United States
  73. February 23, 2011· cited 37×
    Williamson v. Mazda Motor of America, Inc.
  74. May 2, 2011· cited 36×
    Bobby v. Mitts
  75. October 26, 2010· cited 36×
    Brewer v. Landrigan
  76. April 19, 2011· cited 30×
    Virginia Office for Protection and Advocacy v. Stewart
  77. June 20, 2011· cited 21×
    American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut
  78. June 6, 2011· cited 21×
    City of Hazleton v. Lozano
  79. April 18, 2011· cited 21×
    Black v. New York
  80. October 4, 2010· cited 21×
    Dominguez Castro v. Puerto Rico
  81. January 10, 2011· cited 19×
    Madison County v. Oneida Indian Nation of N. Y.
  82. November 1, 2010· cited 15×
    Wong v. Smith
  83. February 22, 2011· cited 14×
    Barbour v. Louisiana
  84. January 18, 2011· cited 12×
    Maxwell-Jolly v. Independent Living Center of Southern California, Inc.
  85. December 13, 2010· cited 10×
    Tuck-It-Away, Inc. v. New York State Urban Development Corp.
  86. December 13, 2010· cited 10×
    Costco Wholesale Corp. v. Omega, S. A.
  87. October 4, 2010· cited 10×
    McWhorter v. California
  88. October 4, 2010· cited 10×
    Coast Automotive Group, Ltd. v. Mercedes Benz, U.S.A.
  89. June 13, 2011· cited 9×
    Flores-Villar v. United States
  90. October 4, 2010· cited 9×
    Kovacevich v. United States
  91. July 7, 2011· cited 8×
    Leal Garcia v. Texas
  92. May 26, 2011· cited 8×
    Camreta v. Greene Ex Rel. S. G.
  93. November 29, 2010· cited 8×
    United States v. Huckabee
  94. June 20, 2011· cited 7×
    First American Financial Corp. v. Edwards
  95. May 23, 2011· cited 7×
    Greene v. Arnone
  96. January 19, 2011· cited 7×
    National Aeronautics & Space Administration v. Nelson
  97. May 2, 2011· cited 6×
    Missouri Title Loans, Inc. v. Brewer
  98. December 13, 2010· cited 6×
    Clemons v. Department of Commerce
  99. December 10, 2010· cited 6×
    Actavis, Inc. v. Demahy
  100. October 12, 2010· cited 6×
    Ryan v. Doody

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