Justice-level heterogeneity in certiorari voting
US Supreme Court October terms 1939, 1968, and 1982
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6342014 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gregory A Caldeira (The Ohio State University), Daniel Lempert (0000-0002-9508-3392, State University of New York at Potsdam, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 793-805 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Science Research and Methods (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2049-8470 • E-ISSN: 2049-8489 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/psrm.2021.69 |
| OpenAlex | W4200191908 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 31 |
Although the literature on US Supreme Court agenda-setting is sizable, justice-vote-level multivariate analyses of certiorari are almost exclusively limited to samples of discussed cases from 1986 to 1993. Moreover, these studies have done very little to explore justice-level heterogeneity on certiorari. Here, we address these lacunae by analyzing the predictors of individual justices’ cert votes on all paid cases from the 1939, 1968, and 1982 terms. We find substantial justice-level heterogeneity in the weight that justices place on the standard set of forces shaping the cert vote. We also show that some of this heterogeneity is associated with justices’ experience and ideological extremism, largely in theoretically predicted ways. In closing, we sound a note of caution on drawing conclusions about effects of justice attributes, when the number of justices is relatively small
Certiorari · Economic Justice · Ideology · Original jurisdiction · Political science · Politics · Supreme court · Voting · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems · Legal and Constitutional Studies
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |