Supreme Court examples of numbers

  • Two months after Reed Smith’s report, the State disclosed seven boxes of previously withheld documents from Glossip’s trials.

    — Justice Sotomayor in GLOSSIP v. OKLAHOMA

    — showing the Court’s practice of spelling out numbers zero to nine

  • Twenty-six years after the brutal murder of Escolastica Harrison, this Court stayed Gutierrez’s impending execution.

    — Justice Thomas (dissenting) GUTIERREZ v. SAENZ

    — showing the Court’s practice of spelling out even higher numbers when they start a sentence

  • The land, the plaintiff claimed, was worth more than $2,000, the amount-in-controversy requirement then in effect.

    — Justice Barrett (dissenting) in PERTTU v. RICHARDS

    — showing the Court’s practice of using numerals with specific dollar amounts

  • A doctor could impose a “limitation” on a patient’s diet by telling the patient that she must lose 20 pounds over the next six months, even if the doctor does not prescribe a specific diet and exercise regimen.

    — Justice Barrett (dissenting) in CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO v. EPA

    — showing the Court’s practice of spelling out numbers zero to nine but using numerals for higher numbers and measurements

  • According to the Ninth Circuit, nearly three quarters of Boise’s shelter beds were not “practically available” because the city’s charitable shelters had a “religious atmosphere.” . . . Consider San Francisco, where each night thousands sleep “in tents and other makeshift structures.”

    — Justice Gorsuch in CITY OF GRANTS PASS v. JOHNSON

    — showing the Court’s general practice of spelling out fractions

  • Nevertheless, the regional office increased Thornton’s PTSD disability rating to 50%. Thornton then sought an additional increase to 70% and underwent another medical evaluation, but the regional office maintained the 50% rating.

    — Justice Thomas in BUFKIN v. COLLINS

    — showing the Court’s majority practice of using the number + percentage symbol (with no spaces) instead of writing “50 percent”

  • For those offenses, a Federal District Court sentenced him to 25 years’ imprisonment. In January of 2021, after serving nearly 15 years of his sentence, Riley moved for compassionate release, arguing that his Type 2 diabetes and the COVID–19 pandemic constituted extraordinary and compelling reasons justifying his release.

    — Justice Sotomayor (dissenting) in RILEY v. BONDI

    — showing the Court’s practice of using numerals for numbers 10 and above

  • Owned by developer John Dewberry, it provides services solely to other, separately incorporated companies in his portfolio (about 30 in all). . . . Meanwhile, the affiliates— which, recall, he also owns—have racked up tens of millions of dollars in profit. . . . The court thus totaled the affiliates’ real-estate profits from the years Dewberry Group infringed, producing an award of nearly $43 million.

    — Justice Kagan in DEWBERRY GROUP, INC. v. DEWBERRY ENGINEERS INC.

    — for monetary amounts, showing the Court’s practice of spelling out generic numbers but using numerals for specific amounts

  • In many important provisions, the Constitution is a document of majestic specificity with “strikingly clean prose.” Two Houses of Congress. A House elected every two years. Senators serve 6-year terms. Two Senators per State. . . . A two-thirds House vote to expel a Member of the House.

    — Justice Sotomayor in GLOSSIP v. OKLAHOMA

    — showing the Court’s practice of spelling out fractions and numbers zero to nine but using numerals for time periods like “6-year terms”