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Editor’s note: True of many prominent rulings, although the Washington Post reports (tinyurl.com/sc-rulings) that since 2000, “a unanimous decision has been more likely than any other result — averaging 36 percent of all decisions. … The 5-to-4 decisions, by comparison, occurred in 19 percent of cases.”