Detecting multiple authorship of United States Supreme Court legal decisions using function words

Legitimacy and the empowerment of discretionary legal authority: the United States Supreme Court and abortion rights.

Revealed Public Opinion on Twitter: The Supreme Court of the United States Same-Sex Marriage Decisions

Extreme Dissensus: Explaining Plurality Decisions on the United States Supreme Court

Plurality decisions on the Supreme Court represent extreme dissensus where no clear majority is formed for any one controlling rationale for the final disposition. Studying these decisions is important because they erode the Court’s credibility and authority as a source of legal leadership, and because they provide broader lessons about judicial decision making. This article presents the first ...

The Median Justice on the United States Supreme Court

Peer Effects on the United States Supreme Court

Using data on essentially every US Supreme Court decision since 1946, we estimate a model of peer effects on the Court. We consider both the impact of justice ideology and justice votes on the votes of their peers. To identify these peer effects we use two instruments. The first is based on the composition of the Court, determined by which justices sit on which cases due to recusals or health r...