Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 14/09/2026New today on supremecourt.report: Justice level stats by Term supremecourt.report/justices/ot2... 010
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 12/09/2026Here's some backtesting of supremecourt.report 's new and updated cert grant probability model. Darker dots are grants, lighter dots are denials. Log scale. 020
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 08/09/20266. Because lawyers thrive on status competition, the site also offers counsel leaderboards: who files most often, whose petitions are most often relisted, which are most likely to be granted, and who is most often victorious after argument. supremecourt.report/counsel/ 131
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 08/09/20262. The site's model assigns a grant probability to every paid petition for certiorari. The model is trained on all the data in the database, and uses many different variables to derive its probabilities. Is it perfect? No. Is it better than any other public model? Yes. 240
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 05/06/2026I don't know if we should abandon SSRN for an alternative. But I do know that it's now essentially trivial to make a replacement, because I made one in an afternoon. 160
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 04/06/2026I try to teach my classes such that, even when they are vacationing across Europe in the summer, my students cannot escape thinking about National Pork Producers Council v. Ross. 040
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 25/03/2026Once again the world has turned, and baseball is back. To mark the occasion, here is my favorite literary quotation about baseball, from DeLillo's "Mao II" 020
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 11/12/2025Do you want to see the new filings at the Supreme Court each day? I built a tool to do just that. s2.smu.edu/~tbbennett/d... 151
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 05/11/2025Cool but nerdy legal tech development: @free.law launched natural-language search in its vast and powerful case law API! Can’t wait to dig in and see what it can do. Full announcement here: free.law/2025/11/05/s... 040
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 07/10/2025Jeffrey Kessler has filed a petition for certiorari asking the Supreme Court to overrule baseball's "antitrust exemption." The case arises in the somewhat unusual context of Puerto Rico's professional baseball league. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25... 030
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 03/10/2025Fascinating takings clause petition granted today by the Supreme Court. No amicus briefs, no relists, counsel without any SCOTUS arguments to date, interesting issue. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25... 082
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 05/08/2025Interesting cert petition filed by Lehotsky Keller and First Liberty Institute asks the Supreme Court to overrule Employment Division v. Smith www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25... 031
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 24/07/2025RIP to Hulk Hogan, whom I learned a good bit about for “Breaking Kayfabe.” Here’s my favorite bit 110
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 08/07/2025Abstract and SSRN link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 474
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 07/07/2025"What two or three suggestions would you make to improve this course in the future?" 🦅 210
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 02/07/2025For reasons I'll make public soon, I have been tracking newly filed petitions for certiorari at the Supreme Court. Yesterday—July 1—the Court began assigning docket numbers beginning "25-" instead of "24-" Look who filed (first one is with the Stanford Clinic). What do they know? 000
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 01/07/2025This has always struck be as odd in light of Supreme Court Rule 3 001
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 30/06/2025The executive branch has asked the Supreme Court to answer this question: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24... 210
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 27/06/2025The CASA majority (per Justice Barrett) had some strong words for Justice Jackson: 000
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 27/06/2025I love a Justice Barrett opinion. I do. But isn't this topic sentence entirely undermined by the remainder of this paragraph? 000
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 27/06/2025Article III gang, fear not: we live to fight another day 110
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 27/06/2025And to be clear it looks like they said _five_ different confusing and unworkable things 110
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 27/06/2025Pretty brutal typo right out of the gate (from the syllabus): 000
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 12/06/2025When e-filing goes wrong www.nytimes.com/athletic/641... 000
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 20/05/2025The loss of Justice Souter is a moment to celebrate what a tremendous public servant he was. And I’ve always loved what a quirky Yankee he was. Like how he had to move out his phoneless farmhouse because it was collapsing under the weight of his books. 👑 020
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 20/05/2025My computer is very supportive during this trying period of grading 020
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 14/05/2025Here's _every_ 40+ game score since 2001-02. It's becoming a lot more common. 120
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 14/05/2025Here's a half-way interesting fact I learned today. The best single-game NBA performances each season are getting better over time. The biggest outliers are getting bigger. #rstats 160
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 01/05/2025Ask yourself why your state’s judiciary’s swag bags for kids aren’t as good as Maryland. Call your representative today. 030
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 11/04/2025Reading about the common law in the early Oregon Territory. Obviously it's wild that they had a big fight about which book had the right law. But if both books were blue, why did they refer to them by their color at all?? 160
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 03/04/2025So nice of the communications team to compile the definitive set of images of me gesticulating wildly 150
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 18/03/2025New lawsuit by the Phillies over an analytics platform called Titan Intelligence. Phillies allege they paid millions of dollars for an exclusive right _in their division_ to use this platform, and seek an injunction blocking the platform from being sold to other NL East teams 221
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 21/02/2025Oh yeah. That's the good stuff right there. Pure, uncut arcana. Not for casuals. 020
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 13/02/2025Lots of turmoil at 1 St. Andrews Plaza as the SDNY U.S. Attorney's office is at the center of a political firestorm. But there's one man who has the experience and political connections for the job. Who doesn't love a comeback arc? 210
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 12/02/2025Most cert. petitions filed since the beginning of OT2017, by attorney 000
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 07/02/2025I love it when documentation gets philosophical #rstats 051
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 04/02/2025Which Supreme Court petitions have been relisted most since OT2021 began? #rstats 100
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 04/02/2025Time to pull out one of my favorite Supreme Court oral argument clips for class today. cc @stevevladeck.bsky.social 000
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 15/01/2025Glad we got that Supreme Court case everyone was waiting for: a unanimous Kagan opinion about the meaning of 28 U.S.C. §§ 1367 and 1441, the supplemental and removal jurisdiction statutes! www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p... 010
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 02/01/2025By the end of 2025, Clarence Thomas will be the sixth-longest-tenured Justice in Supreme Court history after passing Rehnquist, Brennan, Harlan I, and Story. He needs another three years and 138 days to claim the all-time lead from William O. Douglas. 010
