Template:SCOTUS-termlist-statistics/doc

This template is for use with lists by term of the opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States, such as 2014 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States. It generates the table that goes under the header "[year] term membership and statistics". Only the individual opinion counts, numbers of cases in agreement, and numbers participating must be entered manually; all table totals and percentages are then calculated automatically.

Parameters
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CJ-first and CJ-last: The first and last names of the Chief Justice. List middle names together with the first to ensure proper sorting.

AJ[#]: The first/middle and last names of each Associate Justice, to be listed in descending order of seniority.

[CJ or AJ#]-POTUSfirst and [CJ or AJ#]-POTUSlast: The first/middle and last names of the President who appointed the corresponding Justice.

[CJ or AJ#]-date: The date the Justice's appointment to the Court was confirmed.

[CJ or AJ#]-agreeing: The number of cases for which the Court filed an opinion in which the Justice was in agreement with the Court's judgment (see current term list here, for example). This will include any cases in which the Justice participated and did not dissent even in part, even if the Justice did not join the majority opinion.

[CJ or AJ#]-participated: The number of cases in which the Justice participated. A Justice is assumed to have participated in the decision unless the Court's opinion stated they took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.

[CJ or AJ#]-majority: The number of opinions in which the Justice delivered the judgment of the Court, whether a majority opinion in whole or in part, or a plurality opinion.

[CJ or AJ#]-concurrence: The number of concurring opinions the Justice filed, whether styled as a concurring opinion or an opinion concurring in the judgment.

[CJ or AJ#]-concurrencedissent: The number of opinions the Justice delivered that were concurring in part and dissenting in part.

[CJ or AJ#]-dissent: The number of dissenting opinions the Justice delivered.

Opinions relating to orders and in-chambers opinions are not included in these counts or in the term lists for the Court as a whole; for those, see instead individual justice term lists (e.g., 2014 term United States Supreme Court opinions of Clarence Thomas).

The size of the Court has remained constant since 1869, at nine Justices. Due to mid-term membership changes, however, some terms will have more than nine Justices serving within a single term (see, e.g., 2005 term). Use the additional parameters below to handle additional justices:

Additional parameters:

CJ-confirmation-note: Some Chief Justices, such as William Rehnquist, served on the Court as Associate Justices before being elevated to Chief Justice. As the table only presents information for one appointing President and confirmation date, use the standard fields to note their first appointment to the Court, and use CJ-confirmation-note to briefly explain this and given their appointment history as Chief Justice. Be sure to enclose the note in ref tags, as the template will not do this automatically. Example:
 * |CJ-confirmation-note=

majoritytotaloverride, concurrencetotaloverride, concurrencedissenttotaloverride, dissenttotaloverride: For the rare instances of jointly authored opinions. These should be included in the individual opinion counts for each attributed justice, but not counted more than once in the totals for the Court. Accordingly, use this field to manually insert a total opinion count for that type of opinion, so as to override the template's automatic addition of the individual justices' counts. The grand total of all opinions for the Court will reflect this changed number automatically.

totaldiscrepancynote: Use this in conjunction with the previous field to explain why the totals do not match. Example (from the 2003 term):
 * totaldiscrepancynote=Individual opinion counts will not match the Court's totals; Stevens and O'Connor's jointly authored opinion for the Court in McConnell v. FEC is counted separately for both justices but counted only once in the Court's totals.

statement: a very uncommon designation for a justice to use for opinions relating to the Court's opinion. Entering "statement=yes" in the template code within an article will activate the relevant column. See 2019 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States for an example.

Example
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