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26 Jan 2017, 4:33 am
” At Empirical SCOTUS, Adam Feldman concludes that even in this “unusual term,” “the usual criteria that indicate or signal the importance of a Supreme Court petition to the Court,” such as experienced Supreme Court counsel and a high number of amicus briefs at the cert stage – data he analyzes in this post — are still proving fairly accurate predictors of which cases the justices decide to accept. [read post]
16 Sep 2016, 5:27 am
” Briefly: At Empirical Scotus, Adam Feldman looks at changing work patterns at the Supreme Court, noting that the increased number of amicus briefs filed at the cert. and merits stages, combined with “the additional time the Court has to focus on each individual case due to the shrunken docket,” may have contributed to an aggregate increase in Supreme Court opinion length over time. [read post]
25 Oct 2018, 4:29 am
” At Empirical SCOTUS, Adam Feldman surveys “eight issues with laws that significantly vary at that state level and which affect large swaths of the population” that he suggests “are potential sparks for litigation in hot-button areas that might very well reach the Supreme Court. [read post]
14 Oct 2016, 3:53 am
” At Empirical SCOTUS, Adam Feldman breaks down the oral argument in the case, calculating the relative speaking time of the advocates and justices and the number of questions asked of each advocate. [read post]
29 Mar 2016, 12:51 am
At Empirical SCOTUS, Adam Feldman observes that, in the wake of the death of Justice Antonin Scalia last month, “Justice Sotomayor has become one of the most dominant voices” at oral arguments. [read post]
[Jonathan H. Adler] Does the Quality of Brief Writing Affect the Outcome of Supreme Court Decisions?
27 Aug 2023, 6:42 pm
Adam Feldman of EmpiricalSCOTUS and Professor Pamela Corley, a political scientist at SMU, have a new paper in The Journal of Appellate Advocacy and Practice, "Does Quality Matter? [read post]
26 Oct 2016, 3:57 am
At Empirical SCOTUS, Adam Feldman surveys a range of potential Supreme Court nominees in a hypothetical Hillary Clinton presidency, using several criteria to narrow the field and producing a list of five top candidates, headed by Judge Sri Srinivasan, in addition to current nominee Chief Judge Merrick Garland. [read post]
19 Jul 2017, 4:35 am
’” At Empirical SCOTUS, Adam Feldman analyzes the recent cert-grant track records of “several Supreme Court repeat players” who in previous years “were much more successful than others in getting the Supreme Court to hear their cases. [read post]
27 Mar 2016, 11:40 pm
” At Empirical SCOTUS, Adam Feldman analyzes last week’s oral arguments in Puerto Rico v. [read post]
10 Apr 2017, 4:34 am
” At Empirical SCOTUS, Adam Feldman analyzes the court of appeals decisions in which Gorsuch wrote separately in an effort to predict how Gorsuch might rule on some of the cases on the April argument calendar. [read post]
16 Oct 2017, 4:27 am
” Briefly: At Empirical SCOTUS, Adam Feldman breaks down the track record before Supreme Court of the solicitor general’s office over time, concluding that “[l]ooking across the history of the office …, the OSG’s success during the Obama Administration was not only at a recent low, but also at a historic low. [read post]
15 Mar 2018, 4:34 am
” At Empirical SCOTUS, Adam Feldman uses a legal-writing software tool to measure the quality of the writing in “certiorari and cert stage opposition briefs for granted cases during the 2017/2018 term. [read post]
4 Dec 2024, 8:19 pm
Ahem, Adam Feldman. [read post]
20 May 2020, 3:58 am
” For this blog, Adam Feldman uses data from “the first week of the Supreme Court’s telephonic oral arguments … to compare old-style oral arguments with the new framework”; he concludes that “[t]he change in argument format offers an interesting lens into potential improvements for oral arguments moving forward. [read post]
15 Apr 2020, 3:50 am
” At Empirical SCOTUS, Adam Feldman observes that “if the Supreme Court decides all cases already orally argued this term along with the ten additional cases slated for argument in May by signed decisions, the number of decisions for OT 2019 will reach 58[:] Even with several recent terms where the justices’ opinion output dipped to historic lows, 58 signed decisions would be the fewest since 1864 and 1862 and prior to the blip due to the Civil War it would be the… [read post]
21 Jul 2016, 4:42 am
” At Empirical SCOTUS, Adam Feldman suggests that, even with a “liberal shift in the Court’s general demeanor,” “there are indications that the Court’s conservative bastion still remains strong. [read post]
6 Sep 2018, 4:25 am
At Empirical SCOTUS, Adam Feldman analyzes transcripts from four earlier hearings and concludes that “we can expect an even more polarized process than we have seen in previous hearings. [read post]
26 Aug 2016, 9:05 am
Briefly: Adam Feldman at Empirical SCOTUS examines how easy Supreme Court opinions from the 2015 term are to read. [read post]
19 Jul 2016, 6:13 am
And at Empirical SCOTUS, Adam Feldman looks at the Justices’ efficiency and concludes that, although “in some sense” Ginsburg “stepped outside of her role as Justice by making these comments, at least by these findings, as a Justice she is doing her job more efficiently than any other Justice on the Roberts Court. [read post]
13 Mar 2019, 3:55 am
” At Empirical SCOTUS, Adam Feldman analyzes the justices’ frequency in the majority over time, concluding that “[w]hatever led to the past high level of consensus no longer holds quite as true. [read post]
