Handed down by the court's conservative majority, the decision upends a 40-year-old precedent and will go down as one of the most consequential rulings on labor law in decades.
At one point, he asked a lawyer for the federal government how consequential a ruling against his position would be.
Gov. Bob Riley of Alabama hailed the decision as "the most consequential legal ruling in the 18-year history of the water war, and one of the most important in the history of the State of Alabama".
Advocates saw the case as a watershed test of how the court would apply privacy protections in the digital age, calling it "the most consequential privacy ruling in a generation".
Citizens United was probably the most consequential free-speech ruling of the modern era, although its detractors would say that it wasn't about free speech at all.
The Supreme Court's most consequential abortion rights ruling in a generation has vindicated a lower court judge who operates in relative obscurity in Austin, Texas.
The more consequential part of the ruling, in fact, may be the less visible one: its limitations to the expansion of Medicaid and, by extension, on congressional spending power.
The attorneys general's suit is potentially the most consequential, with this week's ruling setting the stage for the plaintiffs to possibly seek private documents related to the Trump International Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue NW — a property Trump once used as a backdrop for a campaign event featuring hundreds of hotel staff.
Tuesday's ruling was not especially consequential.
Algeria's unrest erupted in the shadow of long-lasting, highly consequential protests in Sudan against long-ruling President Omar Hassan al-Bashir.
The ruling (PDF) is not hugely consequential, but it is indicative of the evolving place in which translation apps find themselves in our lives and legal system.
