Empirical SCOTUS

StatPack Extended OT ’24

A deep dive with everything we couldn't fit into the StatPack.

The Real A.C.B.

Data and analysis bring clarity to the question of whether Barrett is the weak link on a conservatively dominated Court.

Legalytics Deep Dive #1: All The Presidents’ Judges

Perhaps the most (or at least one of the most) important duties of the president is judicial appointments.

Mirroring The Justices’ Styles

Sophisticated writing software with AI components can now tell you how to write like particular judges by engineering writing that mirrors stylistic features of the judges’ writings. 

How The Newest Supreme Court Justices Compare: A Look At Each Of Their Respective First Two Years On The Court

Overall, these justices reflect the ideological spectrum of the Supreme Court.

Using Network Analysis To Gauge The Justices’ Relative Importance In Oral Arguments

This analysis underscores that influence within judicial discourse is more multifaceted than meets the eye.

What Oral Argument Engagement Tells Us About Supreme Court Opinion Writing

Knowledge of how justices engage in oral arguments compared to their written opinions can inform legal practitioners on how to better present cases.

Concurrences Are All the Rage

The justices clearly assert their uniqueness with their concurrences and as this is on display, they show how the justices may be more different than meets the eye.

SEC v. Jarkesy: Another 5th Circuit Decision Under Supreme Court Scrutiny

We recently used Optimized Legal Audio (OLA) to try to read the tea leaves on the audio footprint of the SEC v. Jarkesy case. Here are the results.

Generating Predictions For Grants Pass v. Johnson Using Artificial Intelligence

Optimized Legal Audio is an artificial intelligence engine in its infancy that tries to hear what judges say, read the language they use, and through this to infer their relative preference for one attorney’s argument over another’s.

The Most Harmony At The Beginning Of A Term In The Modern Supreme Court

Just how different is the start of this term compared with past terms?

The Echo Chamber Grows

With only a few spots at this upper echelon of Supreme Court practice, how do attorneys get repeat player experience?

Supreme Court Justice Power Index At The End Of The 2022 Term

A matrix for scoring the justices in terms of relative power.

Who Is The Most Powerful Supreme Court Justice Of Them All?

Ranking the current justices.

SCOTUS Predictions Based On Lower Court Judges

The current Supreme Court seems to not only take its cues from conservative lower court judges, but particularly from Trump’s nominees.