Individual Decisional Consistency Across Collegial Courts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6090388 |
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| Authors | William Nicholls (Texas Tech University, corresponding author), William W Nicholls |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 313-320 |
| Publication date | 1981-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Law & Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0265-8240 • E-ISSN: 1467-9930 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9930.1981.tb00249.x |
| OpenAlex | W1999692652 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
This article examines the decisional consistency of U.S. Supreme Court justices with lower collegial court experience in a twofold effort to expose the potential policy implications of consistent or inconsistent behavior and to show the value of longitudinal analysis of individual rather than aggregate decisional patterns. The results show a fairly high level of consistent behavior but with marked differences across the case subjects. The article concludes with an assessment of the implications for justice selection processes and Supreme Court decision‐making theory
Consistency (knowledge bases · Economic Justice · Law and economics · Political science · Sociology · Statistics · Supreme court · Value (mathematics · Computer Science · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems · Legal Education and Practice Innovations · Mathematics · Psychology · Social Psychology
The Supreme Court as a Small Group
Handbook of Political Science Methods
Researching the Supreme Court in a Democratic Pluralist System
The Justices of the United States Supreme Court, 1789-1969
The Relevance of Policy Values for the Confirmation of Supreme Court Nominees
On the Fluidity of Judicial Choice
| Highly cited | No |
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