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Majority opinion
About: Majority opinion is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4107 publications have been published within this topic receiving 54845 citations. The topic is also known as: opinion of the court.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the decisions of litigants in criminal cases to appeal decisions from the U.S. Courts of Appeals to the Supreme Court and demonstrated that such behavior is necessary if the court is to retain control over the federal judiciary.
Abstract: This article examines the decisions of litigants in criminal cases to appeal decisions from the U.S. Courts of Appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court. Using a random sample of search and seizure cases from 1962 through 1990 and a measure of the likelihood that the appeals court decision will be reversed if cert is granted, we demonstrate that litigants behave as if they rationally consider costs and benefits in their decisions to appeal. Given the extraordinary number of cases decided by lower federal courts vis-a-vis the number of cases the Supreme Court can decide, we argue that such behavior is necessary if the Supreme Court is to retain control over the federal judiciary.
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TL;DR: The authors applied an axiomatic measure of polarization developed by Esteban and Ray (1994) to study ideological heterogeneity on the Court to develop a "polarization statistic" and compared this method with other common polarization measures and provided evidence for the reliability of the measure.
Abstract: The study of ideological polarization is an important topic in research ranging from behavioral-level to institutional studies of politics. Polarization, however, has received little attention in the context of the Supreme Court, even while popular press and legal commentary suggest ideological heterogeneity on the Court is consequential for the Court’s policy outputs. In this article, I apply an axiomatic measure of polarization developed by Esteban and Ray (1994) to study ideological heterogeneity on the Court to develop a “polarization statistic.” I compare this method with other common polarization measures and provide evidence for the reliability of the measure.
53 citations
01 Jan 1995
53 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the relative impact of internal Delphi process factors, including panelists' degree of confidence, expertise, majority/minority positioning, and richness of feedback on opinion change and subsequent accuracy of judgmental forecasts.
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01 Jan 1980
52 citations