"Justices have come from countries around the world and visited here and they've said, 'We can't do important work the way you do because
we have to decide three thousand cases a year. They spend a lot of time
pushing paper and making sure individual cases that don't have a lot of
Impact are correctly decided. We don't. We try to focus on the ones that
are going to be important for how our system of government functions.”
--The Supreme Court: A C-SPAN Book,
Featuring the Justices in Their Own Words
Based on this excerpt, which of the following best reflects the caseload of the
U. S. Supreme Court?
A. The Court takes on only as many cases as it thinks it can thoroughly hear
during a term.
B. The Court takes on more cases than foreign supreme courts during its
term.
C. The Court takes on only those cases that are of highest national interest.
D. Foreign supreme courts and the U. S. Supreme Court hear about the same
number of important cases.