Kansas City, Mo. — Reports show that 154 same-sex couples wed in Kansas during a volatile period in late 2014, months before the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling that legalized the unions nationwide.

Data from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment show those unions made up less than 1 percent of the 17,655 marriages statewide in 2014. The agency, which released the numbers this week, said figures for marriages so far in 2015 weren’t yet available.

However, documents filed in a federal court case suggest the statewide same-sex marriage total for 2015 will be much higher. Sedgwick County has issued at least 160 marriage licenses to same-sex couples this year, while Douglas County issued about 60 such licenses.

Tom Witt of the gay rights group Equality Kansas said roadblocks to marriage in 2014 were “substantial.”

Confusion reigned after the U.S. Supreme Court in October turned away appeals from five states seeking to retain their bans on same-sex marriage. One was in the same federal appeals court circuit as Kansas, where voters approved a gay marriage ban in 2005.

One gay marriage was performed in October in Johnson County, but Attorney General Derek Schmidt quickly filed a petition to overturn it and a stay was issued to block additional same-sex unions. The stay was lifted in mid-November, and some Kansas counties began granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

“Trying to draw a picture of the rush to the altar based on six weeks when most counties weren’t granting marriage licenses isn’t really going to tell you anything,” Witt said.

A lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union challenging Kansas’ ban was pending in June, when the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.

Since then, a federal judge has ruled the state’s ban is unconstitutional, but he gave the parties extra time to make written filings on whether Kansas has made good on its assurances that it will comply.