David H. Souter
David H. Souter is in the ideology file. Vote totals for the full service are not in this fixture.
Ideology over time
Martin-Quinn score by term against the Court median. Negative is liberal. Scores are relative to the docket. Intervals are not in this file. A single term is noisy.
Table
| series | term | martin_quinn |
|---|---|---|
| Souter | 1990 | 0.963 |
| Souter | 1991 | 0.576 |
| Souter | 1992 | 0.159 |
| Souter | 1993 | -0.369 |
| Souter | 1994 | -0.533 |
| Souter | 1995 | -0.576 |
| Souter | 1996 | -0.619 |
| Souter | 1997 | -0.779 |
| Souter | 1998 | -0.908 |
| Souter | 1999 | -1.266 |
| Souter | 2000 | -1.413 |
| Souter | 2001 | -1.533 |
| Souter | 2002 | -1.608 |
| Souter | 2003 | -1.739 |
| Souter | 2004 | -1.708 |
| Souter | 2005 | -1.598 |
| Souter | 2006 | -1.482 |
| Souter | 2007 | -1.509 |
| Souter | 2008 | -1.526 |
| Court median | 1990 | 0.963 |
| Court median | 1991 | 0.576 |
| Court median | 1992 | 0.704 |
| Court median | 1993 | 0.742 |
| Court median | 1994 | 0.663 |
| Court median | 1995 | 0.573 |
| Court median | 1996 | 0.692 |
| Court median | 1997 | 0.636 |
| Court median | 1998 | 0.737 |
| Court median | 1999 | 0.724 |
| Court median | 2000 | 0.480 |
| Court median | 2001 | 0.302 |
| Court median | 2002 | 0.220 |
| Court median | 2003 | 0.169 |
| Court median | 2004 | 0.076 |
| Court median | 2005 | 0.189 |
| Court median | 2006 | 0.413 |
| Court median | 2007 | 0.317 |
| Court median | 2008 | 0.565 |
Where Souter came down, by issue
Share of votes coded liberal. The first-run issue table suppresses cells under 25 votes and does not publish a separate Court rate for this justice. Direction before 1946 is excluded.
Table
| issue | justice_liberal | court_liberal | n |
|---|---|---|---|
| Federal Taxation | 0.707 | 1690 | |
| First Amendment | 0.700 | 1690 | |
| Federalism | 0.639 | 1690 | |
| Due Process | 0.627 | 1690 | |
| Civil Rights | 0.610 | 1690 | |
| Criminal Procedure | 0.560 | 1690 | |
| Unions | 0.556 | 1690 | |
| Economic Activity | 0.542 | 1690 | |
| Judicial Power | 0.479 | 1690 |
At oral argument stage 3
Words per argument, questions to each side, interruptions given and received, and whether the side questioned more went on to lose. Formats are never pooled.
Source: Oyez speaker turns
Writing style stage 2
Words per opinion, reading grade, citations per thousand words, and the share of case versus statutory citations.
Source: CourtListener opinion text
Reasoning profile stage 6
Which reasoning techniques appear, against the Court average over the same terms. Validation accuracy prints beside the chart.
Source: Taxonomy classifier over opinion text
Before the Court stage 8
Pre-appointment opinions, reversal record and panel agreement.
Source: CourtListener, labeled by coverage