38% of the 2014 term's 71 decisions were unanimous and 27% came down to one vote.
Stephen G. Breyer was in the majority most often in divided cases (86%); Clarence Thomas least often (32%). Petitioners won 70% of the time, against a modern rate of 64% across 26,969 coded cases.
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Vote, author and issue area from the Supreme Court Database. Single-term figures are noisy.
Who was in the majority
Share of divided cases in October Term 2014 in which each justice voted with the majority. A single term is noisy. The comparison is the other justices on this bench, not the Court across history.
Table
| justice | divided_majority | all_cases | majority_opinions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stephen G. Breyer | 0.864 | 0.901 | 9 |
| Sonia Sotomayor | 0.818 | 0.887 | 7 |
| Ruth Bader Ginsburg | 0.795 | 0.873 | 7 |
| Elena Kagan | 0.795 | 0.873 | 7 |
| Anthony M. Kennedy | 0.795 | 0.873 | 6 |
| John G. Roberts, Jr. | 0.636 | 0.775 | 7 |
| Samuel A. Alito, Jr. | 0.500 | 0.690 | 8 |
| Antonin Scalia | 0.477 | 0.676 | 9 |
| Clarence Thomas | 0.318 | 0.577 | 7 |
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Applications filed, granted and denied, with the share decided without a written opinion.
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