United States Supreme Court Judicial Database Terms Series

Investigator(s): Harold J. Spaeth, James L. Gibson, Michigan State University

This data collection encompasses all aspects of United States Supreme Court decision-making from the beginning of the Warren Court in 1953 up to the completion of the 1995 term of the Rehnquist Court on July 1, 1996, including any decisions made afterward but before the start of the 1996 term on October 7, 1996. In this collection, distinct aspects of the court's decisions are covered by six types of variables: (1) identification variables including case citation, docket number, unit of analysis, and number of records per unit of analysis, (2) background variables offering information on origin of case, source of case, reason for granting cert, parties to the case, direction of the lower court's decision, and manner in which the Court takes jurisdiction, (3) chronological variables covering date of term of court, chief justice, and natural court, (4) substantive variables including multiple legal provisions, authority for decision, issue, issue areas, and direction of decision, (5) outcome variables supplying information on form of decision, disposition of case, winning party, declaration of unconstitutionality, and multiple memorandum decisions, and (6) voting and opinion variables pertaining to the vote in the case and to the direction of the individual justices' votes.

Years Produced: Annually

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2021
Rice, Douglas R., Zorn, Christopher Corpus-based dictionaries for sentiment analysis of specialized vocabularies. Political Science Research and Methods. 9, (1), 20-35.
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2020
Benesh, Sara C., Armstrong, David A., II, Wallander, Zachary Advisors to elites: Untangling their effect. Journal of Law and Courts. 8, (1), 51-73.
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2020
Canelo, Kayla S. State coalitions, informational signals, and success as amicus curiae at the U.S. Supreme Court. State Politics and Policy Quarterly. 20, (1), 108-130.
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2020
Fix, Michael P., Fairbanks, Bailey R. The effect of opinion readability on the impact of U.S. Supreme Court precedents in state high courts. Social Science Quarterly. 101, (2), 811-824.
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2020
Heise, Michael Beyond replication: A few comments on Spruk and Kovac and Martin-Quinn scores. International Review of Law and Economics. 61, .
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2020
Li, Siyu A separation-of-powers model of U.S. Chief Justice opinion assignment. Justice System Journal. 41, (1), 3-21.
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2020
Li, Siyu, Pryor, Tom Humor and persuasion: The effects of laughter during the US Supreme Court's oral arguments. Law and Policy. 42, (2), 162-185.
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2020
Masood, Ali S., Kassow, Benjamin J. The sum of its parts: How Supreme Court justices disparately shape attention to their opinions. Social Science Quarterly. 101, (2), 842-860.
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2020
Pennington, Karson A. To Assign or Not to Assign? Majority Opinion Assignment in the Rehnquist and Roberts Courts. University of Georgia. [thesis]

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2020
Todd, Jason D. Conceptualizing and Measuring Strategic Behavior Within Political Institutions. Duke University. [dissertation]

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Journal Article
2019
Ballingrud, Gordon, Jammo, Caitlein Ideology and risk focus: A preliminary exploration of the effect of judicial ideology focus in Supreme Court opinion construction. Denver Law Review. 96, (4), 793-812.
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2019
Bansal, Neha, Sharma, Arun, Singh, R.K. An evolving hybrid deep learning framework for legal document classification. Ingenierie des Systemes d'Information. 24, (4), 425-431.
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2019
Chen, Daniel L. Judicial analytics and the great transformation of American law. Artificial Intelligence and Law. 27, 15-42.
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2019
Clark, Tom S. The Supreme Court: An Analytic History of Constitutional Decision Making. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, .
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2019
Hazelton, Morgan L.W., Hinkle, Rachael K., Spriggs, James F., II The influence of unique information in briefs on Supreme Court opinion content. Justice System Journal. 40, (2), 126-157.
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2019
Hume, Robert J. Disagreeable rhetoric, shaming, and the strategy of dissenting on the U.S. Supreme Court. Justice System Journal. 40, (1), 3-20.
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2019
Krewson, Christopher N. Strategic sensationalism: Why justices use emotional appeals in Supreme Court opinions. Justice System Journal. 40, (4), 319-336.
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2019
Masood, Ali S., Kassow, Benjamin J., Songer, Donald R. The aggregate dynamics of lower court responses to the US Supreme Court. Journal of Law and Courts. 7, (2), 159-186.
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2019
Mindock, Maxwell R., Waddell, Glen R. Vote Influence in Group Decision-Making: The Changing Role of Justices' Peers on the Supreme Court. IZA DP No. 12317. Bonn, Germany: Institute of Labor Economics.
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2019
Nie, Mintao, Waltenburg, Eric N., McLauchlan, William P. Time chart of the justices revisited: An analysis of the influences on the time it takes to compose the majority opinion on the U.S. Supreme Court. Justice System Journal. 40, (1), 54-75.
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2019
Rice, Douglas Measuring the issue content of Supreme Court opinions. Journal of Law and Courts. 7, (1), 107-127.
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2019
Sanga, Sarath A new strategy for regulating arbitration. Northwestern University Law Review. 113, (5), 1121-1162.
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2019
Spruk, Rok, Kovac, Mitja Replicating and extending Martin-Quinn scores. International Review of Law and Economics. 60, .
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2019
Wofford, Claire B. The structure of legal doctrine in a judicial hierarchy. Journal of Law and Courts. 7, (2), 263-280.
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2018
Bonica, Adam, Chilton, Adam, Goldin, Jacob, Rozen, Kyle, Sen, Maya Legal Rasputins? Law Clerk Influence on Voting at the Supreme Court. .
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2018
Budziak, Jeffrey, Lempert, Daniel Assessing threats to inference with simultaneous sensitivity analysis: The case of US Supreme Court oral arguments. Political Science Research and Methods. 6, (1), 33-56.
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2018
Clark, Tom S., Montagnes, B.P., Spenkuch, Jorg L. Politics from the Bench? Ideology and Strategic Voting in the U.S. Supreme Court. CESifo Working Paper No. 7264. Munich Society for the Promotion of Economic Research.
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2018
Hume, Robert J. Contesting Legal Truths: Measuring the Tone of U.S. Supreme Court Decisions. .
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2018
Rice, Douglas R., Zorn, Christopher Corpus-Based Dictionaries for Sentiment Analysis of Specialized Vocabularies. .
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2018
Rose, Jonathan G. Supreme Court Evaluation of Federal Agency Actions. University of Tennessee. [dissertation]
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2018
Sulam, Ian C. Precedent, Policy, and Indeterminacy: Applications of Natural Language Processing to the Study of Judicial Behavior. University of Rochester. [dissertation]
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2017
Bonica, Adam, Chilton, Adam, Goldin, Jacob, Rozema, Kyle, Sen, Maya Do Law Clerks Influence Voting on the Supreme Court?. Coase-Sandor Working Paper Series in Law and Economics No. 790. Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics.
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2017
Buckler, Kevin, Gilmore, Elizabeth L. Originalism, pragmatic conservatism, and living document judicial philosophies: Explaining variation in U.S. Supreme Court votes in criminal procedure cases for the 1994–2014 terms of court. American Journal of Criminal Justice. 42, (1), 28-54.
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2017
Feldman, Adam The Role of Merits Briefs in the Generation of Supreme Court Decisional Language. University of Southern California. [dissertation]
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2017
Kaufman, Aaron, Kraft, Peter, Sen, Maya Machine Learning, Text Data, and Supreme Court Forecasting. .
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2017
Krewson, Christopher Strategic Sensationalism: Understanding the Use of Emotional Appeals in Supreme Court Opinions. .
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2017
Merkulov, Nikolay High Courts and the Resolution of Federation-State Conflicts. State University of New York. [dissertation]

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2017
Strother, Logan Impact: The Supreme Court in American Politics. Syracuse University. [dissertation]
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2017
Yanus, Alixandra B., Gray, Virginia H. Policy content on the U.S. Supreme Court: A view from the states. Justice System Journal. 38, (3), 277-289.
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2016
Gleason, Shane A., Provost, Colin Representing the states before the U.S. Supreme Court: State amicus brief participation, the policy-making environment, and the Fourth Amendment. Publius. 46, (2), 248-273.
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2016
Moffett, Kenneth W., Maltzman, Forrest, Miranda, Karen, Shipan, Charles R. Strategic behavior and variation in the Supreme Court's caseload over time. Justice System Journal. 37, (1), 20-38.
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2016
Ura, Joseph D., Flink, Carla M. Managing the Supreme Court: The chief justice, management, and consensus. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 26, (2), 185-196.
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2015
Arnold, Taylor, Tilton, Lauren Humanities Data in R: Exploring Networks, Geospatial Data, Images, and Text. New York, NY: Springer, .

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2015
Bartels, Brandon L., O'Geen, Andrew J. The nature of legal change on the U.S. Supreme Court: Jurisprudential regimes theory and its alternatives. American Journal of Political Science. 59, (4), 880-895.
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2015
Collins, Todd A., Cooper, Christopher A. Making the cases 'real': Newspaper coverage of U.S. Supreme Court cases 1953-2004. Political Communication. 32, (1), 23-42.
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2015
Eshbaugh-Soha, Matthew, Collins, Paul M, Jr. Presidential rhetoric and Supreme Court decisions. Presidential Studies Quarterly. 45, (4), 633-652.
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2015
Foote, Paul D., Lacy, Leann Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education: The role that moderate justices' played on the Warren court in closely divided and salient cases. Midsouth Political Science Review. 16, 45-72.
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Conference Presentation
2015
Higashi, Brenden Class and courts: An analysis of class attributes and judicial decision-making. Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association 2015. Las Vegas, NV.
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2015
Horowitz, Jeremy D. Essays on Judicial Behavior Under Institutional Constraint. University of California. [dissertation]
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2015
Jacobi, Tonja, Kontorovich, Eugene Why judges always vote. International Review of Law and Economics. 43, 190-199.
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