Passage: The October 2017 term had a low rate of unanimous rulings, with only 39% of the cases decided by unanimous rulings, the lowest percentage since the October 2008 term when 30% of rulings were unanimous. Chief Justice Roberts was in the majority most often (68 out of 73 cases, or 93.2%), with retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy in second (67 out of 73 cases, or 91.8%); this was typical of the Roberts Court, in which Roberts and Kennedy have been in the majority most frequently in all terms except for the 2013 and 2014 terms (though Kennedy was in the top on both those terms). Justice Sotomayor was the justice least likely to be in the majority (in 50 out of 73 cases, or 68.5%). The highest agreement between justices was between Ginsburg and Sotomayor, who agreed on 95.8% of the cases, followed by Thomas and Alito agreeing on 93% of cases. There were 19 cases that were decided by a 5-4 vote (26% of the total cases); 74% of those cases (14 out of 19) broke along ideological lines, and for the first time in the Roberts Court, all of those resulted in a conservative majority, with Roberts, Kennedy, Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch on the majority.
How many cases broke ideological lines than were decided by a 5-4 vote? How many cases did not break on ideological lines? How many cases that were decided by the majority were not along ideological lines? How many cases was Chief Justice Roberts not in the majority 68 out 73? How many cases was Chief Justice Roberts not in the minority? How many cases was Kennedy not in the majority? How many cases was Sotomayor not in the majority? How many justices are conservative? How many justices are in the majority? How many justices are in the minority? How many justices were in the conservative majority? How many justices were in the minority in the 14 of 19 cases that were decided alng ideological lines? How many more percentage was Roberts in the majority than Kennedy? How many terms were Justice Roberts and Justice Kennedy both not in the majority the most? What justices were in the majority? Which Chief Justice was likely to be in majority, Sotomayor or Kennedy? Which Justice comes in first for highest number of cases where they are in the majority? Which Justice was in the majority the least often? Which chief justice was in the majority in most cases, Kennedy or Roberts? Who ruled the same as Justice Sotomayor most often? Who ruled the same as Roberts the most? Who was in the majority the least?