With the U.S. Supreme Court beginning its October Term 2023 in the coming weeks, we conduct our 39th annual review of the performance of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in the Supreme Court during the past term.

The Supreme Court's October Term 2022 was its first with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who proved to contribute a strong, independent voice. She was the court's most active questioner in two decades of data, and she issued three dissents signed by no other justice, a type of opinion not issued by a new justice since Justice Clarence Thomas in 1991. Additionally, the court maintained its recent practice of hearing around 60 cases—the fewest since the 1860s.