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United States Supreme Court Judicial Database Terms Series
Investigator(s): Harold J. Spaeth, James L. Gibson, Michigan State University
This data collection encompasses all aspects of United
States Supreme Court decision-making from the beginning of the Warren Court
in 1953 up to the completion of the 1995 term of the Rehnquist Court on July
1, 1996, including any decisions made afterward but before the start of the
1996 term on October 7, 1996. In this collection, distinct aspects of the
court's decisions are covered by six types of variables: (1) identification
variables including case citation, docket number, unit of analysis, and number
of records per unit of analysis, (2) background variables offering information
on origin of case, source of case, reason for granting cert, parties to the
case, direction of the lower court's decision, and manner in which the Court
takes jurisdiction, (3) chronological variables covering date of term of
court, chief justice, and natural court, (4) substantive variables including
multiple legal provisions, authority for decision, issue, issue areas, and
direction of decision, (5) outcome variables supplying information on form of
decision, disposition of case, winning party, declaration of
unconstitutionality, and multiple memorandum decisions, and (6) voting and
opinion variables pertaining to the vote in the case and to the direction of
the individual justices' votes.Years Produced: Annually
Complete Metadata
| bureauCode |
[ "011:21" ] |
|---|---|
| dataQuality | false |
| identifier | 2428 |
| issued | 1990-12-04T00:00:00 |
| language |
[ "eng" ] |
| programCode |
[ "011:061" ] |
