[Lurking Libertarian]

However, the full court does not vote on each and every writ of certiorari submitted to them. By not being selected for consideration (conference & discuss list), the cert is “automatically denied.” Sourced from same document as previous post.

In that case, you should be able to find one case on the Supreme Court's docket in which certiorari was denied and the docket does not say "circulated for conference." Look-- you won't find one.

[BuckeyeTexan]

Again, if a case received a vote on certiorari at all (yea or nay), by default it had been placed on the discuss list and referred for conference. That's why you see that on the docket listing. The vast majority of cases are never accepted for consideration, not distributed for conference, and not voted upon.