Average issues of 73 totaled more than 300 pages in the 1970s and 80s.
Over the years, he wrote down a series of 25 volumes totaling 7,400 pages.
It has happened before: people still remember the nine decisions, totaling 446 pages, that the court issued on the last day of its 1987-88 term.
His classmates' papers, he said, totaled two or three pages.
The decision, one of four today that totaled 391 pages, came on the final day of the court's term.
The longest entry, on China, totals 469 pages and 755,400 words.
The two cases produced a total of 10 opinions, totaling 136 pages.
A month before he retired, 146 reports totaling 2,537 pages poured into his office.
Exhibits for both sides total more than 10,000 pages, consuming 12 feet of shelf space in the court's library.
The result was two companion volumes totaling more than 2,000 pages.