> I also am interested by the prevalence of 5-4 rulings, which are typically taken to imply a highly polarized court I think it's also worth considering that t

> I also am interested by the prevalence of 5-4 rulings, which are typically taken to imply a highly polarized court I think it's also worth considering that the vast majority of cases that are appealed to the Supreme Court are not taken up by the Court simply because they would rule unanimously or close to unanimously. The Court has a limited amount of cases that it can hear each term, so it goes out of its way to select those for which the law is the most unsettled (and therefore are most likely to produce split results).