Judicial Career Patterns and Majority Opinion Assignment on the Supreme Court

The Journal of Politics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1979, Pages 640-648

  Slotnick, Elliot E ^a  

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EID: 84974307214     PISSN: 00223816     EISSN: 14682508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2129783     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. For representative works on opinion assignment see David J. Danelski, “Assignment of the Court's Opinion by the Chief Justice,”
2. S. Sidney Ulmer, “The Use of Power in the Supreme Court: The Opinion Assignments of Earl Warren,” Journal of Public Law, 19 (Winter 1960), 49-67
3. David W. Rohde, “Policy Goals, Strategic Choices, and Majority Opinion Assignments in the U.S. Supreme Court,” Midwest Journal of Political Science, XVI (November 1972), 652-682;
4. Gregory James Rathjen, “Policy Goals, Strategic Choices, and Majority Opinion Assignments in the Supreme Court: A Replication,” American Journal of Political Science, XVIII (November, 1974), 713-724;
5. William P. McLauchlan, “Ideology and Conflict in Supreme Court Opinion Assignment, 1946-1962,” Western Political Quarterly, 25 (March 1972), 16-27.
6. Alpheus T. Mason, Harlan Fiske Stone: Pillar of the Law (New York: Viking Press, 1956), 248.
7. Merlo J. Pusey, Charles Evans Hughes (New York: Columbia University Press, 1951), 773.
8. Walton Hamilton, “Mr. Justice Black's First Year,” The New Republic, (June 8, 1938), 118.
9. Charles Evans Hughes, The Supreme Court of the United States (New York: Columbia University Press, 1928), 74-75.
10. For a discussion of how old age ultimately affected adversely the opinion assignments made to Brandeis and even to Holmes himself see see Danelski, “Assignment of the Court's Opinion,” 7-9 and Mason, Stone, 248.
11. The category of “important opinion assignments” represents an attempt to isolate a subsample of critical constitutional cases. The sourcebooks employed were Joel Grossman and Richard Wells, Constitutional Law and Judicial Policy-Making (New York: Wiley, 1972);
12. Martin Shapiro and Douglas Hobbs, The Politics of Constitutional Law (Cambridge: Winthrop, 1974);
13. Robert E. Cushman and Robert F. Cushman, Cases in Constitutional Law (4th ed.; New York: Appleton, Century, Crofts, 1968);
14. Paul Bartholomew's Leading Cases on the Constitution (9th ed.; Totowa, N.J.: Littlefield, Adams, 1975).