Supreme Court Justices since 1946
The 40 Justices who voted in decisions from the 1946 Term onward, in order of their first Term in the data. Each page lists every majority opinion the Justice wrote, recent dissents, and which colleagues voted with them most and least often.
Felix Frankfurter
1946–1961 Terms · 153 majority opinions
Fred M. Vinson
1946–1952 Terms · 77 majority opinions
Frank Murphy
1946–1948 Terms · 35 majority opinions
Harold H. Burton
1946–1958 Terms · 90 majority opinions
Hugo L. Black
1946–1970 Terms · 311 majority opinions
Robert H. Jackson
1946–1953 Terms · 90 majority opinions
Stanley F. Reed
1946–1956 Terms · 105 majority opinions
Wiley B. Rutledge
1946–1948 Terms · 28 majority opinions
William O. Douglas
1946–1975 Terms · 368 majority opinions
Sherman Minton
1949–1956 Terms · 64 majority opinions
Tom C. Clark
1949–1966 Terms · 216 majority opinions
Earl Warren
1953–1968 Terms · 170 majority opinions
John M. Harlan II
1954–1970 Terms · 171 majority opinions
Charles E. Whittaker
1956–1961 Terms · 42 majority opinions
William J. Brennan Jr.
1956–1989 Terms · 454 majority opinions
Potter Stewart
1958–1980 Terms · 314 majority opinions
Byron R. White
1961–1992 Terms · 475 majority opinions
Arthur J. Goldberg
1962–1964 Terms · 36 majority opinions
Abe Fortas
1965–1968 Terms · 40 majority opinions
Thurgood Marshall
1967–1990 Terms · 322 majority opinions
Harry A. Blackmun
1969–1993 Terms · 314 majority opinions
Warren E. Burger
1969–1985 Terms · 258 majority opinions
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
1971–1986 Terms · 254 majority opinions
William H. Rehnquist
1971–2004 Terms · 456 majority opinions
John Paul Stevens
1975–2009 Terms · 397 majority opinions
Sandra Day O'Connor
1981–2005 Terms · 300 majority opinions
Antonin Scalia
1986–2015 Terms · 282 majority opinions
Anthony M. Kennedy
1987–2017 Terms · 276 majority opinions
David H. Souter
1990–2008 Terms · 158 majority opinions
Clarence Thomas
1991–2025 Terms · 265 majority opinions
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
1993–2019 Terms · 214 majority opinions
Stephen G. Breyer
1994–2021 Terms · 218 majority opinions
John G. Roberts Jr.
2005–2025 Terms · 150 majority opinions
Samuel A. Alito Jr.
2005–2025 Terms · 139 majority opinions
Sonia Sotomayor
2009–2025 Terms · 114 majority opinions
Elena Kagan
2010–2025 Terms · 108 majority opinions
Neil M. Gorsuch
2016–2025 Terms · 62 majority opinions
Brett M. Kavanaugh
2018–2025 Terms · 50 majority opinions
Amy Coney Barrett
2020–2025 Terms · 36 majority opinions
Ketanji Brown Jackson
2022–2025 Terms · 22 majority opinions
Source: Supreme Court Database, 2026 Release 01 (data file dated September 8, 2026). Imported into CaseTrail November 5, 2026. Coverage: decisions from the 1946 through 2025 Terms. Methodology · Report an error