A Statistical Look at the Supreme Court's 2009 Team

John M Scheb; Colin Glennon; Hemant Sharma

A Statistical Look at the Supreme Court's 2009 Team

John M Scheb, Colin Glennon, Hemant Sharma

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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Abstract

Whether a change in membership occurs or not, every Supreme Court term presents a unique set of controversies and decisions for legal scholars to examine. Herein, we offer a discussion of the Court's recently completed 2009-2010 term. Rather than analyzing specific opinions in detail (as many have already done), we generate a comprehensive statistical analysis of justice voting behavior for the term. In particular, we examine consensus and division on the Court, the ideological tenor of the term, voting alignments among the justices, the production of opinions, and the Court's overall ideological spectrum based on individual voting patterns. Ultimately, we also assess the ramifications of our findings for the future study of judicial behavior.

Original language	American English
Article number	3
Pages (from-to)	7-21
Number of pages	15
Journal	Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy
Volume	7
Issue number	1
State	Published - Apr 2014
Externally published	Yes

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supreme court

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Law

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A Statistical Look at the Supreme Court's 2009 Team

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