An End of Term Exam: OT 2003 at the United States Supreme Court

This Essay proceeds in two parts. The first part provides the broad overview of October Term 2003. It analyzes current statistics in the size and composition of the Court\u27s caseload and compares those figures to past terms. It also considers the justices\u27 voting patterns and which justices proved to be the swing votes, both generally and in particular fields. The second part focuses on the key cases of the Term. It addresses both what the Court decided and what it failed to decide. It critiques those decisions and considers their implications for future doctrinal developments. The Court Consensus offers some closing lessons to be drawn from the Term