Add to ORKGAppellate court opinions, carefully indexed and preserved in law libraries, are a tremendous resource for historians and social scientists. In the theory of the common law, these opinions are the law; they stand in the center of the legal system. Their power is enhanced by the common law doctrine that links them in a chain of influence and causation–the doctrine of precedent. Their precedential value means that they are also powerful resources for the practicing lawyer–often the basic material with which he works
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Part of Symposium: The Rehnquist Court in Empirical and Statistical Retrospectiv
For this Michigan Law Review issue devoted to recently published books about law, I thought it would...
An analysis of the twenty-first century Justices’ citations of law review scholarship—how often they...
The past century has seen a striking variation in the size of state supreme courts\u27 caseloads–the...
The highest courts of the 50 states are by any measure important legal institutions. The state supre...
Although the Supreme Court is a singular institution within the American judiciary, it remains recog...
Nine years ago, when I was president of the American Bar Association, I said out loud what members o...
A Review of The Supreme Court: Trends and Developments, Volume 3: 1980-1981 by Jesse Choper, Yale ...
The replacement of traditional seriatim opinions with an "Opinion of the Court," offers what initial...
Much of the social science literature on judicial behavior has focused on the impact of ideology on ...
The Supreme Court, reads a famous passage by Bryce, feels the touch of public opinion. Opinion is s...
The power of judicial review of federal statutes in American constitutional history has the mystique...
During Holmes’ tenure on the Court, 1902-32, opinions were presented unanimously 91% of the time. In...
Formalism is the label regularly used to describe judicial opinions of the late nineteenth century....
Perhaps nowhere in American life is the intersection of language, argumentation, and politics more i...
Part of Symposium: The Rehnquist Court in Empirical and Statistical Retrospectiv
For this Michigan Law Review issue devoted to recently published books about law, I thought it would...
An analysis of the twenty-first century Justices’ citations of law review scholarship—how often they...