William O. Douglas
William O. Douglas 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Douglas | 1955 | -4.032 |
| Douglas | 1956 | -4.430 |
| Douglas | 1957 | -4.726 |
| Douglas | 1958 | -4.962 |
| Douglas | 1959 | -5.121 |
| Douglas | 1960 | -5.255 |
| Douglas | 1961 | -5.371 |
| Douglas | 1962 | -5.459 |
| Douglas | 1963 | -5.573 |
| Douglas | 1964 | -5.742 |
| Douglas | 1965 | -5.888 |
| Douglas | 1966 | -6.014 |
| Douglas | 1967 | -6.135 |
| Douglas | 1968 | -6.248 |
| Douglas | 1969 | -6.321 |
| Douglas | 1970 | -6.403 |
| Douglas | 1971 | -6.475 |
| Douglas | 1972 | -6.495 |
| Douglas | 1973 | -6.538 |
| Douglas | 1974 | -6.599 |
| Court median | 1955 | 0.074 |
| Court median | 1956 | 0.260 |
| Court median | 1957 | 0.610 |
| 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 |
Where Douglas 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Amendment | 0.946 | 3704 | |
| Civil Rights | 0.904 | 3704 | |
| Criminal Procedure | 0.868 | 3704 | |
| Economic Activity | 0.820 | 3704 | |
| Due Process | 0.756 | 3704 | |
| Federalism | 0.730 | 3704 | |
| Unions | 0.635 | 3704 | |
| Judicial Power | 0.605 | 3704 | |
| Federal Taxation | 0.417 | 3704 |
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