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The First One Hundred Justices: Statistical Studies on the Supreme Court of the United States
210 pages, Hardcover
First published May 1, 1978
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June 4, 2014
This is very good for what it is.
Scholars surveyed leading law professors as to which Supreme Court Justices they thought were great. Then the data was sliced up.
Even though this book is awfully short -- mostly tables -- it probably stretches a little more than it should. There's only so many times you can subdivide this data before it becomes meaningless.
The result is that they conclude things like "[I]f we were to describe the background of a typical Supreme Court 'failure,' . . . [h]is ethnic origins would be Scottish or Irish and he would be affiliated with a 'low church' Protestant denomination."
YIKES! Take it easy there, fellas.
What's more interesting is what the data says about (1) the people who responded to the survey and, (2) to a lesser extent, the selection process.
Scholars surveyed leading law professors as to which Supreme Court Justices they thought were great. Then the data was sliced up.
Even though this book is awfully short -- mostly tables -- it probably stretches a little more than it should. There's only so many times you can subdivide this data before it becomes meaningless.
The result is that they conclude things like "[I]f we were to describe the background of a typical Supreme Court 'failure,' . . . [h]is ethnic origins would be Scottish or Irish and he would be affiliated with a 'low church' Protestant denomination."
YIKES! Take it easy there, fellas.
What's more interesting is what the data says about (1) the people who responded to the survey and, (2) to a lesser extent, the selection process.
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