Supreme Court · Associate Justice
Wiley Rutledge
Democratic appointee: Appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)
Served 1943–1949 · 7 terms
Confirmed by voice vote
Biography
Wiley Blount Rutledge Jr. was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1943 to 1949. The ninth and final justice appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, he is best known for his impassioned defenses of civil liberties.
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Ideology over time
Rutledge and the 10 justices who overlapped with Rutledge, 1942–1948
- Wiley Rutledge
- 95% credible interval
- Peer, appointed by a Democrat
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- Court median
How to read this
Martin–Quinn scores place each justice on a single liberal–conservative dimension, estimated from their votes across terms, with scores allowed to shift from one term to the next. Higher is more conservative. The shaded band is the credible interval: wider when the record is thin, especially in a justice’s first terms, and narrower as votes accumulate.
Where Rutledge sits among all justices
Career average, every justice in the data set
Rutledge’s range across terms
Served alongside Rutledge
10 justicesClosest career average first. Filled dot: the peer. Ring: Rutledge.
How Rutledge voted
Every argued case Rutledge took part in, newest first, with how Rutledge voted in each: with the majority, in dissent, or in an equally divided Court. A Liberal or Conservative tag is the Supreme Court Database’s coding of who prevailed in the case, not a rating of the justices.
Data notes
The Decisions page’s argued cases with this justice’s vote from the Supreme Court Database. “Majority” includes a concurrence; a vote that dissented in part is coded by the side the justice took overall. Cases the justice sat out and equally divided cases are left out of the percentages. “Wrote” means authored an opinion. Source: Supreme Court Database (Spaeth et al.).