We propose a novel and provocative analysis of judicial opinions that are published without indicating individual authorship. Our approach provides an unbiased, quantitative, and computer scientific answer to a problem that has long plagued legal commentators. U.S. courts publish a shocking number of judicial opinions without divulging the author. Per curiam opinions, as traditionally and popularly conceived, are a means of quickly deciding uncontroversial cases in which all judges or justices are in agreement. Today, however, unattributed per curiam opinions often dispose of highly controversial issues, frequently over significant disagreement within the court. Obscuring authorship removes the sense of accountability for each decision’s ou...
Federal courts are a mainstay of the justice system in the United States. In this study, we analyze ...
© 2015 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. We evaluate opinion assignment and authors...
For several dozen of its major decisions, the Supreme Court in recent decades has adopted an unusual...
ABSTRACT Recent research has demonstrated that the preferences of US Supreme Court justices are not ...
Nearly four fifths of federal court of appeals opinions are unpublished. For more than 25 years, jud...
We performed two experiments with statistical tech-niques for classifying documents by date and auth...
Martha Woodmansee has pointed out that the law has yet to be affected by the critique of authorshi...
While authorship assignment has been studied extensively in the US Supreme Court, relatively little ...
Back in 1974, the California Supreme Court took the ground-breaking step of creating an appellate ru...
What do judges really care about? Scholars have used various methods to identify a judge’s policy pr...
While authorship assignment has been studied extensively in the U.S. Supreme Court, relatively littl...
In authorship attribution, one assigns texts from an unknown author to either one of two or more can...
Unpublished appellate judicial opinions present formidable challenges for modern legal researchers, ...
Nearly 90 percent of the work of the federal courts of appeals looks nothing like the opinions law s...
We evaluate opinion assignment and authorship on the US courts of appeals. We derive theoretical exp...
Federal courts are a mainstay of the justice system in the United States. In this study, we analyze ...
© 2015 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. We evaluate opinion assignment and authors...
For several dozen of its major decisions, the Supreme Court in recent decades has adopted an unusual...
ABSTRACT Recent research has demonstrated that the preferences of US Supreme Court justices are not ...
Nearly four fifths of federal court of appeals opinions are unpublished. For more than 25 years, jud...
We performed two experiments with statistical tech-niques for classifying documents by date and auth...
Martha Woodmansee has pointed out that the law has yet to be affected by the critique of authorshi...
While authorship assignment has been studied extensively in the US Supreme Court, relatively little ...
Back in 1974, the California Supreme Court took the ground-breaking step of creating an appellate ru...
What do judges really care about? Scholars have used various methods to identify a judge’s policy pr...
While authorship assignment has been studied extensively in the U.S. Supreme Court, relatively littl...
In authorship attribution, one assigns texts from an unknown author to either one of two or more can...
Unpublished appellate judicial opinions present formidable challenges for modern legal researchers, ...
Nearly 90 percent of the work of the federal courts of appeals looks nothing like the opinions law s...
We evaluate opinion assignment and authorship on the US courts of appeals. We derive theoretical exp...
Federal courts are a mainstay of the justice system in the United States. In this study, we analyze ...
© 2015 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. We evaluate opinion assignment and authors...
For several dozen of its major decisions, the Supreme Court in recent decades has adopted an unusual...