What makes a "notable" justice?

The Supreme Court Timeplot incorporates a small feature that might be easily lost amongst the large amount of data in the chart: Next to their names on the lists on either side of the Timeplot, we have starred (*) the ten justices who we consider “most notable.”

This is quite a subjective consideration, so I thought I might say a few words on how we came to develop our list.

We consulted multiple academic sources which rate or rank the justices (there have been quite a number of surveys of scholars and practitioners).

Then we proposed our own list of ten, and sent it to our reviewers—they suggested one change, which we incorporated.

The top ten in the current version of the Timeplot are Marshall, Story, the first Harlan, Holmes, Hughes, Brandeis, Black, Frankfurter, Warren, Brennan. Would you revise that list? Why? Leave us your comments.