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Authors: Timothy Russell Johnson
ISBN-13: 9780791461037, ISBN-10: 0791461033
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Date Published: May 2004
Edition: New Edition
How oral arguments influence the decisions of Supreme Court justices.
Tables | ix | |
Acknowledgments | xi | |
Chapter 1 | Introduction | 1 |
Chapter 2 | Oral Arguments as an Information-Gathering Tool | 21 |
Chapter 3 | Oral Arguments and Coalition Formation | 57 |
Chapter 4 | Conference, Opinion Writing, and Oral Arguments | 71 |
Chapter 5 | Oral Arguments and Decisions on the Merits | 93 |
Chapter 6 | Conclusions and Implications | 125 |
Appendix 1 | Data Selection | 133 |
Appendix 2 | Data Reliability | 137 |
Appendix 3 | Example of Justice Powell's Oral Argument Notes from Chapter 3 | 139 |
Notes | 141 | |
References | 157 | |
Cases Cited or in the Sample | 167 | |
Index | 171 |