The Supreme Court Compendium
by
Lee Epstein; Jeffrey A. Segal
Call Number: Law Library Reference, KF8742 .S95 2021
Publication Date: 2021
- identification variables (e.g., citations and docket numbers);
- background variables (e.g., how the Court took jurisdiction, origin and source of the case, the reason the Court agreed to decide it);
- chronological variables (e.g., the date of decision, term of Court, natural court);
- substantive variables (e.g., legal provisions, issues, direction of decision);
- outcome variables (e.g., disposition of the case, winning party, formal alteration of precedent, declaration of unconstitutionality); and
- voting and opinion variables (e.g., how the individual justices voted, their opinions and interagreements).
