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Rarest Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court — All 103 Answers Ranked by Rarity

103 answers are accepted for “Name an associate justice of the US Supreme Court”. William Strong is the rarest associate justice of the US Supreme Court in this ranking, with 171 monthly Wikipedia views (rarity 1.000, Legendary). Howell E. Jackson is the second-rarest with 3,785 monthly Wikipedia views, 22.1× the figure for William Strong. Clarence Thomas is the most common associate justice of the US Supreme Court in this ranking, with 958,905 monthly Wikipedia views, 5,608× the figure for the rarest. Combined monthly Wikipedia views across the 103 answers: 11,380,379. William Strong is under 0.1% of that total. 21 answers are Epic or Legendary: William Strong (Legendary), Howell E. Jackson (Legendary), Robert Trimble (Legendary), and 18 more.

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Monthly English Wikipedia pageviews. Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia pageviews (2026-10).

Ranked answers

103 answers to “Name an associate justice of the US Supreme Court”, rarest first. A rarity of 1 is the rarest answer in this prompt.
Rank Answer Tier Rarity Monthly Wikipedia views
1 William Strong on Wikipedia Legendary 1.000 171
2 Howell E. Jackson on Wikipedia Legendary 0.990 3,785
3 Robert Trimble on Wikipedia Legendary 0.980 3,829
4 Peter V. Daniel on Wikipedia Legendary 0.971 3,966
5 Horace Harmon Lurton on Wikipedia Legendary 0.961 4,356
6 James M. Wayne on Wikipedia Legendary 0.951 4,456
7 William Burnham Woods on Wikipedia Legendary 0.941 4,528
8 Ward Hunt on Wikipedia Legendary 0.931 4,751
9 Noah Haynes Swayne on Wikipedia Epic 0.922 5,052
10 Thomas Todd on Wikipedia Epic 0.912 5,204
11 Alfred Moore on Wikipedia Epic 0.902 5,461
12 Joseph Rucker Lamar on Wikipedia Epic 0.892 5,471
13 John Hessin Clarke on Wikipedia Epic 0.882 5,502
14 William Johnson on Wikipedia Epic 0.873 5,682
15 Gabriel Duvall on Wikipedia Epic 0.863 6,442
16 Smith Thompson on Wikipedia Epic 0.853 6,566
17 Edward Terry Sanford on Wikipedia Epic 0.843 6,682
18 John McKinley on Wikipedia Epic 0.833 6,874
19 George Shiras Jr. on Wikipedia Epic 0.824 6,982
20 Henry Brockholst Livingston on Wikipedia Epic 0.814 7,127
21 Henry Baldwin on Wikipedia Epic 0.804 7,364
22 Samuel Nelson on Wikipedia Rare 0.794 7,522
23 Rufus W. Peckham on Wikipedia Rare 0.784 7,798
24 Joseph P. Bradley on Wikipedia Rare 0.775 8,173
25 Nathan Clifford on Wikipedia Rare 0.765 8,238
26 David J. Brewer on Wikipedia Rare 0.755 8,265
27 Harold H. Burton on Wikipedia Rare 0.745 8,275
28 John Catron on Wikipedia Rare 0.735 8,317
29 Samuel Blatchford on Wikipedia Rare 0.725 8,372
30 Thomas Johnson on Wikipedia Rare 0.716 8,478
31 Samuel Freeman Miller on Wikipedia Rare 0.706 8,542
32 Pierce Butler on Wikipedia Rare 0.696 8,863
33 Philip P. Barbour on Wikipedia Rare 0.686 8,935
34 Stanley Matthews on Wikipedia Rare 0.676 9,199
35 Wiley Rutledge on Wikipedia Rare 0.667 9,348
36 John Blair Jr. on Wikipedia Rare 0.657 9,442
37 Robert Cooper Grier on Wikipedia Rare 0.647 9,550
38 Joseph McKenna on Wikipedia Rare 0.637 11,564
39 Henry Billings Brown on Wikipedia Rare 0.627 11,758
40 William Cushing on Wikipedia Rare 0.618 11,801
41 Levi Woodbury on Wikipedia Rare 0.608 13,872
42 Willis Van Devanter on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.598 14,026
43 John Archibald Campbell on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.588 15,464
44 Charles Evans Whittaker on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.578 15,691
45 Sherman Minton on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.569 16,214
46 Stanley Forman Reed on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.559 16,286
47 Benjamin Robbins Curtis on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.549 16,443
48 George Sutherland on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.539 17,170
49 Horace Gray on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.529 17,358
50 Owen Roberts on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.520 19,115
51 William Henry Moody on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.510 19,186
52 William Paterson on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.500 21,149
53 Mahlon Pitney on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.490 22,058
54 Stephen Johnson Field on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.480 22,125
55 John McLean on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.471 22,155
56 David Davis on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.461 22,559
57 Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.451 23,960
58 James Clark McReynolds on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.441 26,205
59 Joseph Story on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.431 31,750
60 William R. Day on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.422 37,631
61 Tom C. Clark on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.412 38,561
62 Edward Douglass White on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.402 42,371
63 Frank Murphy on Wikipedia Familiar 0.392 45,402
64 Samuel Chase on Wikipedia Familiar 0.382 47,683
65 Arthur Goldberg on Wikipedia Familiar 0.373 50,087
66 John Marshall Harlan II on Wikipedia Familiar 0.363 50,543
67 Benjamin N. Cardozo on Wikipedia Familiar 0.353 58,025
68 Harlan F. Stone on Wikipedia Familiar 0.343 61,102
69 Potter Stewart on Wikipedia Familiar 0.333 66,103
70 Bushrod Washington on Wikipedia Familiar 0.324 66,220
71 John Rutledge on Wikipedia Familiar 0.314 66,764
72 Abe Fortas on Wikipedia Familiar 0.304 67,172
73 James F. Byrnes on Wikipedia Familiar 0.294 74,610
74 John Marshall Harlan on Wikipedia Familiar 0.284 74,786
75 Harry Blackmun on Wikipedia Familiar 0.275 77,023
76 Felix Frankfurter on Wikipedia Familiar 0.265 78,516
77 William J. Brennan Jr. on Wikipedia Familiar 0.255 83,685
78 James Wilson on Wikipedia Familiar 0.245 100,792
79 Hugo Black on Wikipedia Familiar 0.235 112,097
80 Lewis F. Powell Jr. on Wikipedia Familiar 0.225 115,438
81 Byron White on Wikipedia Familiar 0.216 124,139
82 Louis Brandeis on Wikipedia Familiar 0.206 130,038
83 Charles Evans Hughes on Wikipedia Common 0.196 140,109
84 David Souter on Wikipedia Common 0.186 140,363
85 Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. on Wikipedia Common 0.176 145,865
86 William O. Douglas on Wikipedia Common 0.167 171,097
87 John Paul Stevens on Wikipedia Common 0.157 173,749
88 Stephen Breyer on Wikipedia Common 0.147 237,218
89 Anthony Kennedy on Wikipedia Common 0.137 247,007
90 William Rehnquist on Wikipedia Common 0.127 250,831
91 Sandra Day O'Connor on Wikipedia Common 0.118 323,797
92 Antonin Scalia on Wikipedia Common 0.108 419,601
93 Elena Kagan on Wikipedia Common 0.098 434,186
94 Neil Gorsuch on Wikipedia Common 0.088 446,237
95 Sonia Sotomayor on Wikipedia Common 0.078 490,183
96 Brett Kavanaugh on Wikipedia Common 0.069 519,943
97 Amy Coney Barrett on Wikipedia Common 0.059 547,164
98 Samuel Alito on Wikipedia Common 0.049 583,403
99 Thurgood Marshall on Wikipedia Common 0.039 628,596
100 Robert H. Jackson on Wikipedia Common 0.029 700,771
101 Ketanji Brown Jackson on Wikipedia Common 0.020 720,982
102 Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Wikipedia Common 0.010 776,107
103 Clarence Thomas on Wikipedia Common 0.000 958,905

FAQ

What is the rarest associate justice of the US Supreme Court?

William Strong is the rarest associate justice of the US Supreme Court in this ranking, with 171 monthly Wikipedia views (rarity 1.000, Legendary).

How many associate justice of the US Supreme Courts are there?

There are 103 associate justice of the US Supreme Courts in this ranking, from William Strong (rarest) to Clarence Thomas (most common).

What is the most common associate justice of the US Supreme Court?

Clarence Thomas is the most common associate justice of the US Supreme Court in this ranking, with 958,905 monthly Wikipedia views (Common).

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Recorded source: Wikidata + Wikipedia pageviews (2026-10). The answer list is compiled from Wikidata (CC0), and the view counts are monthly English Wikipedia pageviews. Rarity is the percentile of the popularity figure inside this prompt: 1 is the rarest and 0 is the most common. Linked names open the English Wikipedia article stored on that answer.