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Earl Warren

Earl Warren is in the ideology file. Vote totals for the full service are not in this fixture.

14 terms with a Martin-Quinn score

Ideology over time

-20+2+41955196019651968WarrenCONSERVATIVELIBERAL

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.

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seriestermmartin_quinn
Warren1955-1.075
Warren1956-1.247
Warren1957-1.513
Warren1958-1.561
Warren1959-1.527
Warren1960-1.367
Warren1961-1.460
Warren1962-1.338
Warren1963-1.284
Warren1964-1.073
Warren1965-1.161
Warren1966-1.232
Warren1967-1.236
Warren1968-1.247
Court median19550.074
Court median19560.260
Court median19570.610
Court median19580.544
Court median19590.434
Court median19600.535
Court median19610.178
Court median1962-0.814
Court median1963-0.877
Court median1964-0.607
Court median1965-0.608
Court median1966-0.315
Court median1967-0.961
Court median1968-0.971

Where Warren came down, by issue

0%25%50%75%100%Civil RightsDue ProcessEconomic ActivityFederal TaxationFirst AmendmentCriminal ProcedureFederalismUnionsJudicial Power

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.

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issuejustice_liberalcourt_liberaln
Civil Rights0.8412100
Due Process0.8292100
Economic Activity0.8052100
Federal Taxation0.7862100
First Amendment0.7772100
Criminal Procedure0.7762100
Federalism0.7652100
Unions0.7112100
Judicial Power0.4602100

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

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