Potter Stewart
Potter Stewart 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stewart | 1958 | 0.896 |
| Stewart | 1959 | 0.661 |
| Stewart | 1960 | 0.535 |
| Stewart | 1961 | 0.484 |
| Stewart | 1962 | 0.654 |
| Stewart | 1963 | 0.490 |
| Stewart | 1964 | 0.657 |
| Stewart | 1965 | 0.844 |
| Stewart | 1966 | 0.921 |
| Stewart | 1967 | 0.481 |
| Stewart | 1968 | 0.679 |
| Stewart | 1969 | 0.634 |
| Stewart | 1970 | 0.609 |
| Stewart | 1971 | 0.209 |
| Stewart | 1972 | 0.191 |
| Stewart | 1973 | 0.548 |
| Stewart | 1974 | 0.413 |
| Stewart | 1975 | 0.537 |
| Stewart | 1976 | 0.492 |
| Stewart | 1977 | 0.323 |
| Stewart | 1978 | 0.556 |
| Stewart | 1979 | 0.490 |
| Stewart | 1980 | 0.678 |
| Court median | 1958 | 0.544 |
| Court median | 1959 | 0.434 |
| Court median | 1960 | 0.535 |
| Court median | 1961 | 0.178 |
| Court median | 1962 | -0.814 |
| Court median | 1963 | -0.877 |
| Court median | 1964 | -0.607 |
| Court median | 1965 | -0.608 |
| Court median | 1966 | -0.315 |
| Court median | 1967 | -0.961 |
| Court median | 1968 | -0.971 |
| Court median | 1969 | 0.183 |
| Court median | 1970 | 0.590 |
| Court median | 1971 | 0.777 |
| Court median | 1972 | 1.055 |
| Court median | 1973 | 0.610 |
| Court median | 1974 | 0.618 |
| Court median | 1975 | 0.537 |
| Court median | 1976 | 0.492 |
| Court median | 1977 | 0.272 |
| Court median | 1978 | 0.108 |
| Court median | 1979 | 0.146 |
| Court median | 1980 | 0.068 |
Where Stewart 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 | 0.674 | 3430 | |
| First Amendment | 0.665 | 3430 | |
| Federalism | 0.602 | 3430 | |
| Due Process | 0.575 | 3430 | |
| Unions | 0.571 | 3430 | |
| Civil Rights | 0.526 | 3430 | |
| Criminal Procedure | 0.497 | 3430 | |
| Economic Activity | 0.472 | 3430 | |
| Judicial Power | 0.326 | 3430 |
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