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 · 09/09/2026Because the model is generalized and accounts for situations where only one or the other is present, it shouldn’t double count but instead give stacking bonuses. But with so few grants, covariance among variables is a constant problem. 010
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 09/09/2026I KNEW someone would appreciate the RSS feeds. The old internet will never die. 030
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 09/09/2026Was it under seal? This was the old code that predates supremecourt.report, so it’s possible that the changes I’ve made in the meantime fixed whatever the problem is. 101
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 08/09/2026The only thing IFP petitions are excluded from is the cert-grant probability model. There are just too few IFP grants in recent years to work with. But yes, there have been both paid and non-paid pro se petitions granted. In fact, there are 2 this term! See more here: www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...wsj.comHow Two Men Without Lawyers Got Their Cases to the Supreme CourtA prisoner and a prayer leader broke through a system dominated by elite attorneys. 120
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 08/09/202610. I view this project as a kind of @baseball-reference.com for the Supreme Court. Comprehensive, updated every day (indeed, in this case, many times per day), analytical and numeric, and an essential companion. Please reach out with any issues, bugs, or objections! 240
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 08/09/20269. Why make this? Mostly because I was tired of interacting with the Supreme Court's website, which is poor, and thought I could do better. With the help of recent advances in AI coding, what began as a project to track all new Supreme Court filings each day has grown to this. 131
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 08/09/20268. The site also has a simple way to view all argued cases at the Court in a given Term. It includes the date of argument, who argued, the status, and the Question(s) Presented. Here's the page for this Term upcoming: supremecourt.report/arguments/ar... 120
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 08/09/20267. As fans of John Elwood's Relist Watch know, relists are a key driver of Supreme Court cert. grant behavior. So in addition to using number of relists to drive the cert. probability estimates, the site also offers a table of most-relisted cases: supremecourt.report/relists/ 130
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 · 08/09/20265. There is also a page for each day of dockets at the court. It lists all the newly docketed filings, along with case information, counsel, court below, and question presented. It is sorted by the model's cert-grant-probability estimate. Here's today's: supremecourt.report/dashboards/d... 130
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 08/09/20264. The homepage provides the most urgent information: Which petitions filed recently are most likely to be granted? Which opinions and orders has the Court recently handed down (on both the regular and the interim docket)? What events are upcoming at the Court? Etc. 131
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 08/09/20263. For each of the Court's conferences, the site offers a sortable and searchable table listing all the cases, their probability of being granted or GVR'd, the counsel of record, and the question presented. Here is the upcoming Long Conference's page: supremecourt.report/conferences/... 140
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 · 08/09/2026Some highlights: 1. Every petition, appeal, and application has its own page. For example, here is the page for Suncor Energy, the first case in which the Court will hear argument this October: supremecourt.report/cases/25-170... 140
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 08/09/2026This website and database compiles information about the Supreme Court's entire docket beginning with the 2017 Term and updated multiple times per day. It presents those dockets, and that data, in an accessible and user-friendly fashion. 190
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 08/09/2026I'm happy to announce a new resource for Supreme Court watchers: supremecourt.report. Read on for more 🧵supremecourt.reportSupreme Court ReportEvery case the Supreme Court is asked to hear, what it asks, and the odds it is granted — rebuilt three times a day from the Court's own docket. 27431
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
Reposted by Tommy BennettFree Law Project ⚖ @free.law · 12/05/2026CourtListener is now available inside Claude as a new MCP Connector. Here's what that means and why it matters. 👇 free.law/2026/05/12/c...free.lawAI Tools and Assistants such as Claude Can Now Connect to CourtListener's Full FunctionalityCourtListener is now available as a new MCP Connector inside Claude and other AI assistants, giving AI agents native access to the full power of CourtListener — case law, PACER data, citation analysis... 22915
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 · 20/01/2026Hark! An Erie opinion! www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...supremecourt.gov 030
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 · 24/10/2025Here's a little preview of something I've been working on: a dashboard of the new Supreme Court petitions and applications filed each day. s2.smu.edu/~tbbennett/d... 0122
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 · 26/09/2025Most law schools have substantially increased the median LSAT and UGPA scores of their incoming classes in the last decade. s2.smu.edu/~tbbennett/a...s2.smu.edu 030
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 06/08/2025Listening to the tariff oral argument from last week and my main reaction is that we need to deploy the nation’s strategic podcast-producer reserve to the Federal Circuit 010
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 05/08/2025Somewhat ironically, the petition cites confusion over the holding in Tandon as a reason to grant the petition. “Please clean up this unreasoned mess you made!” 041
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 · 24/07/2025Link to paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....papers.ssrn.comBreaking KayfabeThe membership of the Supreme Court affects how it decides cases. This maxim is well accepted among the public. But it is exceedingly rare for Supreme Court opi 000
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 · 24/07/2025A good bit of commentary on the exercise of equitable power has the flavor of, “ugh, isn’t it lawless how this whole area lacks hard rules and focuses on difficult judgments of fairness?” 100
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 16/07/2025Thanks to the Legal Theory Blog for "highly recommend[ing]" my latest article, "Breaking Kayfabe"! lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory/... 110
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 10/07/2025I think it depends what happens in the cases! But probably, at least sometimes, yes. 010
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 10/07/2025I have a paper about some related questions: bsky.app/profile/tomm... 000
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 08/07/2025Thanks to all the sickos out there--both constitutional lawyers and wrestling fans--who love a good show, especially those who help me make this paper better. 040
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 08/07/2025Abstract and SSRN link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 474
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 08/07/2025Hi, friends. I'd like to share a new-ish paper that I'm delighted to have in print. It's called "Breaking Kayfabe," and it's about what professional wrestling can teach us about Supreme Court opinions. I'd be grateful if you gave it some time!media.tenor.coma man with a beard speaking into a microphone with the words acknowledge me written below himALT: a man with a beard speaking into a microphone with the words acknowledge me written below him 160
