Researchers often rely on published opinions to draw conclusions about cases decided by the courts, determinants of court decisions, and broader social phenomena. We demonstrate that 80 to 90 percent of employment discrimination cases filed in federal court do not produce a published opinion. There are good theoretical reasons to believe that the process generating a published opinion is not random and thus that samples of published cases will not be representative of all cases. Through a direct comparison of published and unpublished cases, we show that the two actually do differ in significant and predictable ways. Examining several studies that use cases with published opinions for a variety of purposes, we show how our understanding of ...
Non-precedent decisions are the norm in federal appellate courts, and are seen by judges as a practi...
While authorship assignment has been studied extensively in the U.S. Supreme Court, relatively littl...
An unfair system has evolved over the past fifteen years in the federal courts. The federal courts c...
Researchers often rely on published opinions to draw conclusions about cases decided by the courts, ...
Researchers often rely on published opinions to draw conclusions about cases decided by the courts, ...
Nearly four fifths of federal court of appeals opinions are unpublished. For more than 25 years, jud...
During the 2007 survey period, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit continued...
Some legal researchers may assume that all cases decided by federal courts are published. However, m...
This article discusses the courts\u27 adoption of the limited publication plans and analyzes the met...
Nearly 90 percent of the work of the federal courts of appeals looks nothing like the opinions law s...
While authorship assignment has been studied extensively in the US Supreme Court, relatively little ...
Employment-discrimination plaintiffs swim against the tide. Compared to the typical plaintiff, they ...
The federal courts of appeals have used unpublished opinions for thirty years as one method of cop...
Employment discrimination is a fact in our society. Scientific studies continue to show that employe...
Most federal intermediate appellate court opinions are “unpublished”— they have no precedential valu...
Non-precedent decisions are the norm in federal appellate courts, and are seen by judges as a practi...
While authorship assignment has been studied extensively in the U.S. Supreme Court, relatively littl...
An unfair system has evolved over the past fifteen years in the federal courts. The federal courts c...
Researchers often rely on published opinions to draw conclusions about cases decided by the courts, ...
Researchers often rely on published opinions to draw conclusions about cases decided by the courts, ...
Nearly four fifths of federal court of appeals opinions are unpublished. For more than 25 years, jud...
During the 2007 survey period, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit continued...
Some legal researchers may assume that all cases decided by federal courts are published. However, m...
This article discusses the courts\u27 adoption of the limited publication plans and analyzes the met...
Nearly 90 percent of the work of the federal courts of appeals looks nothing like the opinions law s...
While authorship assignment has been studied extensively in the US Supreme Court, relatively little ...
Employment-discrimination plaintiffs swim against the tide. Compared to the typical plaintiff, they ...
The federal courts of appeals have used unpublished opinions for thirty years as one method of cop...
Employment discrimination is a fact in our society. Scientific studies continue to show that employe...
Most federal intermediate appellate court opinions are “unpublished”— they have no precedential valu...
Non-precedent decisions are the norm in federal appellate courts, and are seen by judges as a practi...
While authorship assignment has been studied extensively in the U.S. Supreme Court, relatively littl...
An unfair system has evolved over the past fifteen years in the federal courts. The federal courts c...