The Supreme Court in the American Legal System

The Supreme Court in the American Legal System
Jeffrey A. Segal, Harold J. Spaeth, Sara C. Benesh

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Table or Illustration	Description	Dataset	Output
Table 6.4	Pennsylvania sentencing regression	Penn2.zip	Penn.htm
Table 7.2, 7.4, 7.6	State Supreme Court confession results	ssc confession data 1970-1991.zip	ssc confession.htm
Table 8.8	U.S. sentencing data	sentencing.zip	sentencing.htm
Figures 9.6-9.8	Court of Appeals Figures	appeals graph.zip	usca figures.htm
Tables 9.3-9.10	Court of Appeals decisions (Songer/Auburn)	Songer auburn 1960.zip	tables 9-3 and 9-4.htm tables 9-5 and 9-6.htm table 9-7.htm table 9-8.htm table 9-9.htm table 9-10.htm
Tables 10.3-10.9	Confirmation crosstabs	confirm.zip	ch 10 tables.htm
Figures 10.1	Presidential Regimes	Allcourt03.zip	Fig10-1.htm
Figures 10.2	Incoming and outgoing justices	Fig10-2.zip	Fig10-2.htm
Table 11.1	Nonmeritorious	Allcourt03.zip	Table 11-1.htm
Table 11.2	Case selection	Allcourt03.zip	Table 11-2.htm
Table 11.3-11.5	Cert strategies	Burger cert	Burger cert tables.htm
Table 11.6	Reversal by chief	Allcourt03.zip	Table 11-6.htm
Table 11.7	Reversal by term	Allcourt03.zip	Table 11-7.htm
Table 12.2	Support for Precedent	Prec.zip	Prec.htm
Table 12.3	Overturning Precedent	Altprec.zip	Altprec.htm
Figures 12.1, 12.2	Ideology scatterplots	Ideology.zip	Ideology figures.htm
Table 13.1	Behavioral Options	Allcourt03.zip	Table 13-1.htm
Table 13.2 and 13.3	Vinson and Warren assignments	Vinwar.zip	Vinwar assignments.htm
Tables 13.4	Burger assignments	Burger.zip	Table 13-4.htm
Table 14.1-14.4	Court of Appeals decisions by Confession data	Confession ctap.zip	ch14 tables.htm