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Antonin Scalia

1936 - 2016

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Antonin Gregory Scalia (March 11, 1936 – February 13, 2016) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2016. He was described as the intellectual anchor for the originalist and textualist position in the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative wing. For catalyzing an originalist and textualist movement in American law, he has been described as one of the most influential jurists of the twentieth century, and one of the most important justices in the history of the Supreme Court. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antonin Scalia has received more than 11,251,686 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Antonin Scalia is the 18th most popular judge (down from 13th in 2019), the 4,514th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,034th in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Judge.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 5.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among JUDGES

Among judges, Antonin Scalia ranks 18 out of 53. Before him are Maryanne Trump Barry, Georg Konrad Morgen, Vassiliki Thanou-Christophilou, Clarence Thomas, Thurgood Marshall, and Edward Coke. After him are Fathima Beevi, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, Samuel Alito, Geoffrey Lawrence, 1st Baron Oaksey, and Anthony Kennedy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Antonin Scalia ranks 266. Before him are Sancho Gracia, Albert Ayler, Judea Pearl, Jair Marinho, Alejandro Maldonado, and Stella Stevens. After him are Richard E. Stearns, August Schellenberg, Kigeli V of Rwanda, Mustafa Ould Salek, Jan Tříska, and Fang Lizhi. Among people deceased in 2016, Antonin Scalia ranks 224. Before him are Jon Polito, Martin Gray, Abu Ali al-Anbari, Chiyonofuji Mitsugu, Bill Mollison, and Paul Kantner. After him are Slobodan Santrač, Vladimir Zeldin, Doris Roberts, Juan Mujica, Sigge Parling, and Manuel Velázquez.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Antonin Scalia ranks 4,514 out of 20,380. Before him are Chris McCandless (1968), Gilbert Gottfried (1955), Link Wray (1929), Moe Tucker (1944), Adam Riess (1969), and Bryce Dallas Howard (1981). After him are William Guarnere (1923), Sara Teasdale (1884), Keenan Wynn (1916), Zeppo Marx (1901), Robert Kerman (1947), and Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892).

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Among JUDGES In United States

Among judges born in United States, Antonin Scalia ranks 8. Before him are John Roberts (1955), John Marshall (1755), Earl Warren (1891), Maryanne Trump Barry (1937), Clarence Thomas (1948), and Thurgood Marshall (1908). After him are Stephen Breyer (1938), Sonia Sotomayor (1954), Samuel Alito (1950), Anthony Kennedy (1936), Warren E. Burger (1907), and John Paul Stevens (1920).

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