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Supreme Court Policy Making: Explanation and Prediction
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The article was published on 1979-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 54 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Supreme court & Majority opinion.read more
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Comparing Interest Group Scores across Time and Chambers: Adjusted ADA Scores for the U.S. Congress
TL;DR: In this article, an econometric model that allows one to make inter-temporal and inter-chamber comparisons of interest group ratings is proposed, showing a strong liberal trend in the average member of Congress during 1947-94 and a conservative reversal.
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Predicting Supreme Court Cases Probabilistically: The Search and Seizure Cases, 1962-1981
TL;DR: A legal model with variables that me the prior justification of the search, the nature of the intrusion, and a few mitigating circumstance used to explain the Court's decisions on the reasonableness of a given search or seizure was proposed in this paper.
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Personal Attribute Models of the Voting Behavior of U.S. Supreme Court Justices: Liberalism in Civil Liberties and Economics Decisions, 1946–1978
TL;DR: Parsimonious attribute models reported by as discussed by the authors account for 70 to 90 percent of the variance in the voting of postwar Supreme Court justices in split decisions concerning civil rights and liberties, and economics.
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The Authority of Supreme Court Precedent
James H. Fowler,Sangick Jeon +1 more
TL;DR: It is shown that reversed cases tend to be much more important than other decisions, and the cases that overrule them quickly become and remain even more important as the reversed decisions decline.
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The authority of Supreme Court precedent
James H. Fowler,Sangick Jeon +1 more
TL;DR: The authors constructed a complete network of 30,288 majority opinions written by the U.S. Supreme Court and the cases they cite from 1754 to 2002 in the United States Reports.