A concise, practical guide to reading and interpreting Supreme Court decisions that breaks down the anatomy of majority opinions as well as concurrences and dissents, explains holdings versus dicta, the role of precedent and stare decisis, standards of review, and common methods of statutory and constitutional interpretation, and offers concrete strategies for extracting the binding legal rule and assessing a case’s precedential weight so students, practitioners, and interested readers can follow and apply the Court’s reasoning more confidently.