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Supreme Court Opinions — October Term 2016

Most-cited Supreme Court opinions filed in October Term 2016 (October 1, 2016 to September 30, 2017), from CourtListener's bulk data. CourtListener's bulk data has 518 records for this term with at least one citation or a syllabus (518 with at least one citation, 0 with a syllabus, counted separately); up to 100 of them, ordered by citation count, are listed below.

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  1. June 23, 2017· cited 4,620×
    Perry v. Merit Systems Protection Bd.
  2. June 19, 2017· cited 2,879×
    Ziglar v. Abbasi
  3. February 22, 2017· cited 2,697×
    Buck v. Davis
  4. January 9, 2017· cited 2,504×
    White v. Pauly
  5. June 19, 2017· cited 2,355×
    Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court of Cal., San Francisco Cty.
  6. June 26, 2017· cited 1,306×
    Davila v. Davis
  7. June 23, 2017· cited 1,099×
    Jae Lee v. United States
  8. March 21, 2017· cited 1,069×
    Manuel v. City of Joliet
  9. March 6, 2017· cited 748×
    Beckles v. United States
  10. June 22, 2017· cited 717×
    Weaver v. Massachusetts
  11. April 18, 2017· cited 700×
    Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Haeger
  12. June 12, 2017· cited 622×
    Henson v. Santander Consumer USA Inc.
  13. June 5, 2017· cited 603×
    Town of Chester v. Laroe Estates, Inc.
  14. February 22, 2017· cited 572×
    Fry v. Napoleon Community Schools
  15. May 30, 2017· cited 540×
    BNSF Ry. Co. v. Tyrrell
  16. June 19, 2017· cited 460×
    Packingham v. North Carolina
  17. May 30, 2017· cited 398×
    County of Los Angeles v. Mendez
  18. March 21, 2017· cited 356×
    Nat'l Labor Relations Bd. v. SW Gen., Inc.
  19. June 19, 2017· cited 331×
    Matal v. Tam
  20. April 3, 2017· cited 329×
    Dean v. United States
  21. March 6, 2017· cited 326×
    Pena-Rodriguez v. Colorado
  22. March 22, 2017· cited 305×
    Czyzewski v. Jevic Holding Corp.
  23. May 22, 2017· cited 302×
    TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC
  24. March 28, 2017· cited 293×
    Moore v. Texas
  25. April 25, 2017· cited 292×
    Lewis v. Clarke
  26. June 12, 2017· cited 284×
    Virginia v. LeBlanc
  27. May 15, 2017· cited 283×
    Kindred Nursing Ctrs. Ltd. P'ship v. Clark
  28. June 12, 2017· cited 280×
    Microsoft Corp. v. Baker
  29. May 1, 2017· cited 263×
    Bank of Am. Corp. v. City of Miami
  30. May 22, 2017· cited 259×
    Cooper v. Harris
  31. June 5, 2017· cited 239×
    Honeycutt v. United States
  32. May 30, 2017· cited 237×
    Esquivel-Quintana v. Sessions
  33. June 23, 2017· cited 225×
    Murr v. Wisconsin
  34. June 26, 2017· cited 219×
    California Public Employees' Retirement System v. ANZ Securities, Inc.
  35. June 12, 2017· cited 211×
    Sessions v. Morales-Santana
  36. April 19, 2017· cited 211×
    Nelson v. Colorado
  37. May 22, 2017· cited 206×
    Water Splash, Inc. v. Menon
  38. January 18, 2017· cited 200×
    Lightfoot v. Cendant Mortg. Corp.
  39. March 21, 2017· cited 191×
    SCA Hygiene Products Aktiebolag v. First Quality Baby Products, LLC
  40. March 22, 2017· cited 181×
    Star Athletica, L. L. C. v. Varsity Brands, Inc.
  41. June 26, 2017· cited 171×
    Trump. v. International Refugee Assistance Project
  42. March 22, 2017· cited 170×
    Endrew F. v. Douglas Cnty. Sch. Dist. RE-1
  43. June 5, 2017· cited 167×
    Kokesh v. Sec. & Exch. Comm'n
  44. March 6, 2017· cited 163×
    Rippo v. Baker
  45. October 11, 2016· cited 143×
    Bosse v. Oklahoma
  46. April 19, 2017· cited 139×
    Manrique v. United States
  47. May 1, 2017· cited 128×
    Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela v. Helmerich & Payne Int'l Drilling Co.
  48. November 29, 2016· cited 119×
    Bravo-Fernandez v. United States
  49. May 15, 2017· cited 115×
    Midland Funding, LLC v. Johnson
  50. December 6, 2016· cited 109×
    State Farm Fire & Cas. Co. v. United States Ex Rel. Rigsby
  51. June 5, 2017· cited 97×
    Advocate Health Care Network v. Stapleton
  52. May 15, 2017· cited 95×
    Howell v. Howell
  53. June 22, 2017· cited 92×
    Maslenjak v. United States
  54. December 12, 2016· cited 82×
    Shaw v. United States
  55. March 29, 2017· cited 79×
    Expressions Hair Design v. Schneiderman
  56. June 19, 2017· cited 71×
    McWilliams v. Dunn
  57. March 1, 2017· cited 65×
    Bethune-Hill v. Virginia State Bd. of Elections
  58. December 6, 2016· cited 58×
    Salman v. United States
  59. December 6, 2016· cited 54×
    Samsung Electronics Co. v. Apple Inc.
  60. June 26, 2017· cited 52×
    Pavan v. Smith
  61. April 3, 2017· cited 50×
    McLane Co. v. Equal Emp't Opportunity Comm'n
  62. June 5, 2017· cited 45×
    North Carolina v. Convington
  63. May 30, 2017· cited 44×
    Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark Int'l, Inc.
  64. June 12, 2017· cited 43×
    Sandoz Inc. v. Amgen Inc.
  65. June 5, 2017· cited 39×
    Kokesh v. SEC
  66. October 3, 2016· cited 38×
    FCA U.S. LLC v. Ctr. for Auto Safety
  67. February 22, 2017· cited 35×
    Life Technologies Corp. v. Promega Corp.
  68. February 27, 2017· cited 34×
    Reed v. Louisiana
  69. April 18, 2017· cited 32×
    Coventry Health Care of Mo., Inc. v. Nevils
  70. May 22, 2017· cited 30×
    Florida v. Hurst
  71. January 18, 2017· cited 29×
    Lightfoot v. Cendant Mortgage Corp
  72. October 3, 2016· cited 26×
    Vanessa G. v. Tenn. Dep't of Children's Servs.
  73. April 24, 2017· cited 25×
    Salazar-Limon v. City of Hous.
  74. June 19, 2017· cited 23×
    Jenkins v. Hutton
  75. January 23, 2017· cited 22×
    L. A. Cnty. v. Castro
  76. November 28, 2016· cited 22×
    Hunter v. Cole
  77. January 9, 2017· cited 20×
    Hale v. Julian
  78. April 3, 2017· cited 16×
    McLane Co. v. EEOC
  79. March 22, 2017· cited 11×
    Endrew F. v. Douglas County School Dist. RE–1
  80. October 31, 2016· cited 11×
    Brooks v. Pataki
  81. June 26, 2017· cited 10×
    Sessions v. Binderup
  82. June 26, 2017· cited 9×
    Beck v. Shulkin
  83. May 15, 2017· cited 9×
    Kindred Nursing Centers, L. P. v. Clark
  84. November 14, 2016· cited 9×
    Legate v. Collier
  85. April 24, 2017· cited 8×
    General Motors LLC v. Elliott
  86. October 3, 2016· cited 8×
    Woodard v. Pennsylvania
  87. June 5, 2017· cited 7×
    Arunachalam v. U.S. Dist. Court for the Dist. of Del.
  88. May 30, 2017· cited 7×
    BNSF R. Co. v. Tyrrell
  89. March 27, 2017· cited 7×
    Leidos, Inc. v. Ind. Pub. Ret. Sys.
  90. October 31, 2016· cited 7×
    Arias v. Arizona
  91. October 11, 2016· cited 7×
    Cardona-Castillo v. United States
  92. March 20, 2017· cited 6×
    Uribe v. United States
  93. February 27, 2017· cited 6×
    Cash v. Pennsylvania
  94. January 13, 2017· cited 6×
    Ernst & Young, LLP v. Morris
  95. December 12, 2016· cited 6×
    Jackson v. Semple
  96. November 28, 2016· cited 6×
    Dubose v. United States
  97. June 27, 2017· cited 5×
    Cyan, Inc. v. Beaver Cnty. Emps. Ret. Fund
  98. June 26, 2017· cited 5×
    Straw v. Ind. Supreme Court
  99. May 15, 2017· cited 5×
    Ledford v. Sellers
  100. May 15, 2017· cited 5×
    A.M. ex rel. F.M. v. Acosta

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