Showing papers on "Plurality opinion published in 1968"
01 Mar 1968
TL;DR: In this paper, the relative popularity of judicial opinions among the justices of the High Court, particularly in relation to the participation in decision-making and the background characteristics of the justices, was discussed from a sociometric point of view.
Abstract: SOCIOLOGISTS and social psychologists have devoted considerable attention in recent years to the study of small groups, but relatively little has been done to focus upon appellate courts as a situs for empirical research.’ The data for this paper have been taken from a larger study of High Court decision-making in which I have been engaged for several years.3 In the present report I shall discuss primarily from a sociometric point of view the question of the relative popularity of judicial opinions among the justices of the High Court, particularly in relation to the participation in decision-making and the background characteristics of the justices. Other papers published elsewhere are concerned with the social attitudes of the justices, as inferred from cumulative scaling of their voting in split decisions of the court;4 and with the political ideology of the justices in relation to their social attributes, their participation in decision-making, and their voting behaviour. s
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