The New Certiorari Game

The Journal of Politics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1979, Pages 649-655

  Brenner, Saul ^a  

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EID: 84974265571     PISSN: 00223816     EISSN: 14682508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2129784     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Glendon A. Schubert, “The Study of Judicial Decision-Making As An Aspect of Political Behavior,” American Political Science Review, 52 (December 1958).
2. For a more extensive discussion and elaboration of the certiorari game, see Schubert, Quantitative Analysis of Judicial Behavior (Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press, 1959), 173-267;
3. “Policy Without Law: An Extension of the Certiorari Game,” Stanford Law Review, XIV (March 1962), 284-327.
4. For a criticism of this game, see Walter Berns, “Law and Behavioral Science,” Law and Contemporary Problems 28 (Winter 1963), 189-195.
5. S. Sidney Ulmer, “The Decision to Grant Certiorari As An Indicator to Decision ‘On the Merits’,” Polity 4 (1972), 429-447;
6. “Supreme Court Justices As Strict and Not-So-Strict Constructionists: Some Implications,” Law and Society Review 8 (Fall 1973), 13-32;
7. “Voting Blocs and ‘Access’ to the Supreme Court: 1947-56 Terms,” Jurimetrics Journal 16 (Fall 1975), 6-13;
8. “Upperdogs and Underdogs: Litigant Status As A Factor in the Selection of Cases for Supreme Court Review,” Paper Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Atlanta, November 4-6, 1976).
9. There is one possible exception to this statement. See Ulmer, “Upperdogs and Underdogs.”
10. Nina Totenberg, “Conflict at the Court,” The Washington Magazine (February, 1974). See also Liles v Oregon 425 US 963 (1976).
11. The data presented by Ulmer in Table II (442-443) in “The Decision to Grant Certiorari,” indicates significant statistical relationships for nine of the eleven justices studied by him. This finding is based upon the Q scores, a measure not used by Ulmer.
12. Schubert, Quantitative Analysis of Judicial Behavior (1959), 66. For his data, see 55-67.