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Donald R. Songer
Researcher at University of South Carolina
Publications - 82
Citations - 3489
Donald R. Songer is an academic researcher from University of South Carolina. The author has contributed to research in topics: Supreme court & Court of record. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 82 publications receiving 3351 citations.
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The Hierarchy of Justice: Testing a Principal-Agent Model of Supreme Court-Circuit Court Interactions
TL;DR: This paper examined the effect of monitoring by the Supreme Court on the behavior of circuit court judges and found that the courts of appeals are highly responsive to the changing search and seizure policies of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Strategic Auditing in a Political Hierarchy: An Informational Model of the Supreme Court's Certiorari Decisions
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how the Supreme Court uses signals and indices from lower courts to determine which cases to review, based on publicly observable case facts, the known preferences of a lower court, and its decision.
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Who Wins on Appeal? Upperdogs and Underdogs in the United States Courts of Appeals
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the effect of litigation resources on the success of an appellant appearing before the United States Court of Appeals (USCOP) in both published and unpublished decisions of the courts of appeals.
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Ideology, Status, and The Differential Success of Direct Parties Before the Supreme Court
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impact of litigant status and the changing ideology of the U.S. Supreme Court on differences in the success rates of direct parties before the Court.
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A Reappraisal of Diversification in the Federal Courts: Gender Effects in the Courts of Appeals
TL;DR: For example, the authors found that female judges were significantly more liberal than their male colleagues in employment discrimination cases and no differences were found between male and female judges in obscenity or criminal search and seizure cases.