Empirical SCOTUS has analytics from today’s opinions (May 30, 2017). These are organized a bit differently from last week’s results. We’ve included a measure for opinion readability using the Gunning Fog Index (lower scores tend to equate to easier reading). The most frequent words in each majority opinion are also provided. The Court release four…
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Easy Reading (By Supreme Court Standards)
Supreme Court briefs are team efforts usually with a main coordinating partner/attorney who is known as the “counsel of record.” Although the number of attorneys staffing briefs varies, at the Supreme Court level the number of attorneys listed on the brief is often more than five and can be upwards of ten. This does not…
The Final Stretch: Cases from the Last Two Months of Supreme Court Oral Arguments
Two months of oral arguments remain on the Supreme Court’s calendar. That equates to twenty-four arguments with eleven in March and thirteen in April (some with consolidated cases). The Court usually saves some of the most publicly recognized cases for the end of the term. Last year in March and April the Court took up…
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