[This previously ran on Legalytics Substack] Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, once celebrated as a stalwart conservative and a crowning achievement of the Trump presidency, now finds hersel…| Empirical SCOTUS
Supreme Court oral arguments are more than just legal debates—they’re a high-stakes battleground where justices reveal their philosophies, test the strength of arguments, and sometimes, subtly try to persuade their colleagues. Among the most compelling contrasts on the bench today are Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Ketanji Brown Jackson, two sharp legal minds who approach... Read More| Empirical SCOTUS
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear a groundbreaking case that could pave the way for the nation’s first religious charter school. At the heart of the dispute is St. Isidore, a Catholic online sc…| Empirical SCOTUS
Last week the Supreme Court listened to arguments on the constitutionality the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, which would require TikTok to shut down unless its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, sells it by January 19, 2025, citing national security concerns. TikTok and its users argue that the law infringes on their First... Read More| Empirical SCOTUS
Getting ready for next week’s oral arguments? Here’s everything you need to know. Top line case summary: The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on January 10 in TikTok’s appeal agai…| Empirical SCOTUS
Background Perhaps more than any other Supreme Court tradition, oral arguments have gone through significant changes over the years. The Supreme Court is as old as the nation even though the first …| Empirical SCOTUS
Overview Case description: This case concerns a Tennessee law that bans medical treatments for gender dysphoria in transgender adolescents, prohibiting them based on the minor’s sex and gender identity. The law has been challenged on the grounds that it discriminates based on sex and transgender status, and its validity is contested amid a wave of... Read More| Empirical SCOTUS
What is Legalytics? There are tons of talking heads that provide legal analysis. You can turn to the left, right, and center and there are pundits who speak to your political profile. Legalytics is…| Empirical SCOTUS
Former President and current President Elect Donald Trump appointed 234 judges during his first term. Three of these were to the United States Supreme Court. This is quite unique on several levels. Only three presidents, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, and Dwight Eisenhower had three or more confirmed nominees since 1950 (Eisenhower had five in two... Read More| Empirical SCOTUS
Writing Style is clearly important to the Supreme Court Justices. Not only are the justices cognizant of the writing styles in briefs, but they are also attuned to the writing styles of other judges and justices. Justices past and present discussed this and other matters in interviews with legal writing specialist Bryan Garner for the... Read More| Empirical SCOTUS
In an almost declaratory manner as he singularly conveys on the Court, Chief Justice John Roberts expounded in the majority opinion in Trump v. United States, “[t]his case is the first criminal pro…| Empirical SCOTUS
On January 24, 2022 the United States Supreme Court granted cert in consolidated cases reviewing affirmative action programs at both Harvard and North Carolina Universities along with the Court’s p…| Empirical SCOTUS
Supreme Court Justices have limited mandatory writing duties. Most of the justices are assigned majority opinions to draft. A few justices assign the majority opinion writing duties. This assignmen…| Empirical SCOTUS
Version: 1.1Released: July 1, 2024Citation: Feldman, A. & Truscott, J.S. (2024, July 1). Supreme Court 2023-2024 Stat Review (Version1.1). EmpiricalSCOTUS. Available at: Data (.zip): HereUpdate…| Empirical SCOTUS
As we all await the decision on Moody v NetChoice, we ran the oral argument and the transcript against our Optimized Legal Audio (OLA) platform to see what it ascertained about the justices’ …| Empirical SCOTUS
Concurrences have played an increasingly important role in Supreme Court decision-making over time. They are nothing new though. Looking as far back as 1971’s landmark decision in New York Times v.…| Empirical SCOTUS
The Supreme Court has heard somewhere in the neighborhood of 60-70 oral arguments per term since Justice Kavanaugh joined the Court in the 2018 term. This is well more than 100 fewer arguments than…| Empirical SCOTUS
Supreme Court decisions come down to coalitions and are often predicated on the question of whether a justice can garner at least four additional other votes to support their position in a case. So…| Empirical SCOTUS
