Federal courts are a mainstay of the justice system in the United States. In this study, we analyze 387,898 cases from U.S. Courts of Appeals, where judges are randomly assigned to panels of three. We predict which judge dissents against co-panelists and analyze the dominant features that predict such dissent with a particular attention to the biographical features that judges share. Random forest, a method developed in Breiman (2001), achieves the best classification. Dissent is predominantly driven by case features, though personal features also predict agreement
In the US Court of Appeals, a panel of judges can vote to rehear a case which had previously been he...
In cases heard by multimember courts, one judge usually has the primary responsibility for assigning...
In cases heard by multimember courts, one judge usually has the primary responsibility for assigning...
Federal courts are a mainstay of the justice system in the United States. In this study, we analyze ...
Federal courts are a mainstay of the justice system in the United States. In this study, we analyze ...
Federal courts are a mainstay of the justice system in the United States. In this study, we analyze ...
Federal courts are a mainstay of the justice system in the United States. In this study, we analyze ...
This paper develops and tests a model of self-interested judicial behavior to explore the phenomenon...
This paper develops and tests a model of self-interested judicial behavior to explore the phenomenon...
These original essays by major scholars of judicial behavior explore the frequency, intensity, and e...
We employ machine learning techniques to identify common characteristics and features from cases in ...
© Southern Political Science Association, 2014. We use an original dataset of death penalty decision...
Although academics have long recognized that institutions such as opinion-assignment procedures and ...
Do judicial dissents affect mass politics? Many people, including judges, scholars, political commen...
errors are solely the author’s responsibility. From 1940 to the present, the on-the-record consensus...
In the US Court of Appeals, a panel of judges can vote to rehear a case which had previously been he...
In cases heard by multimember courts, one judge usually has the primary responsibility for assigning...
In cases heard by multimember courts, one judge usually has the primary responsibility for assigning...
Federal courts are a mainstay of the justice system in the United States. In this study, we analyze ...
Federal courts are a mainstay of the justice system in the United States. In this study, we analyze ...
Federal courts are a mainstay of the justice system in the United States. In this study, we analyze ...
Federal courts are a mainstay of the justice system in the United States. In this study, we analyze ...
This paper develops and tests a model of self-interested judicial behavior to explore the phenomenon...
This paper develops and tests a model of self-interested judicial behavior to explore the phenomenon...
These original essays by major scholars of judicial behavior explore the frequency, intensity, and e...
We employ machine learning techniques to identify common characteristics and features from cases in ...
© Southern Political Science Association, 2014. We use an original dataset of death penalty decision...
Although academics have long recognized that institutions such as opinion-assignment procedures and ...
Do judicial dissents affect mass politics? Many people, including judges, scholars, political commen...
errors are solely the author’s responsibility. From 1940 to the present, the on-the-record consensus...
In the US Court of Appeals, a panel of judges can vote to rehear a case which had previously been he...
In cases heard by multimember courts, one judge usually has the primary responsibility for assigning...
In cases heard by multimember courts, one judge usually has the primary responsibility for assigning...