Strategies in Certiorari Voting On the United States Supreme Court

A Reevaluation

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3301780
AutoresJohn F Krol (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), Saul Brenner (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Año1990
Volumen43
Número2
Páginas335
Fecha de publicación1990-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Western Political Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0043-4078 • E-ISSN: 2325-8675
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/448370
OpenAlexW4243284685
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas16
Referencias citadas3

ocial scientists are interested in how institutions set their agendas. The Supreme Court has virtual complete control over its agenda. We are interested, therefore, in how the Court exercises this control. In every fully argued and fully decided case before the United States Supreme Court the justices vote at least three times. The first vote is the vote to hear the case. It is usually a vote to grant or to deny a petition for a writ of certiorari (cert), for most cases seeking review by the Supreme Court come to the Court by the cert route. If the Court grants certiorari the case is set down for oral argument. After oral argument, the justices meet in secret conference to decide whether to reverse or to affirm the decision of the lower court. This

Argument (complex analysis) · Certiorari · Majority opinion · Original jurisdiction · Political science · Politics · Supreme court · Voting · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Legal and Constitutional Studies · Legal Education and Practice Innovations