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Judicial Decision Making

The Justice System Journal


Cumulative Topical Index:

Vols. 1-28 (1974-2007)


Judicial Decision Making

Abramson, Leslie W., “Judicial Disclosure and Disqualification: The Need for More Guidance,” Vol. 28/3: 301 (2007).

Allen, David W., and Diane E. Wall, “The Behavior of Women State Supreme Court Justices: Are They Tokens or Outsiders?” Vol. 12: 232 (1987).

Astiz, Carlos A., “A Comment on Judicial Interpretation of the Federal Court Interpreters Act,” Vol. 14: 103 (1990).

Baar, Carl, “Court Delay Data as Social Science Evidence: The Supreme Court of Canada and ‘Trial Within a Reasonable Time,’” Vol. 19: 123 (1997).

Baum, Lawrence, “Lower-Court Response to Supreme Court Decisions: Reconsidering a Negative Picture,” Vol. 3: 208 (1978).

Benesh, Sarah C., Review of Lopeman, The Activist Advocate: Policy Making in State Supreme Courts, Vol. 21: 354 (2000).

Bradley, Robert C., and Paul Gardner, “Underdogs, Upperdogs, and the Use of the Amicus Brief: Trends and Explanations,” Vol. 10: 78 (1985).

Brenner, Saul, “Holdover Cases on the United States Supreme Court,” Vol. 14: 95 (1990).

Brenner, Saul, Research Note, “Majority Opinion Assignment in Salient Cases on the U.S. Supreme Court: Are New Associate Justices Assigned Fewer Opinions?”  Vol. 22: 209 (2001).

Caldeira, Greg A., “The Incentives of Trial Judges and the Administration of Justice,” Vol. 3: 163 (1977).

Carp, Robert A., and Claude K. Rowland, “The Relationship Between Opinion Writing by Federal Trial Judges and the Termination Rates of the District Court,” Vol. 5: 187 (1979).

Cauthen, James N. G., and C. Scott Peters, “Courting Constituents: District Elections and Judicial Behavior on the   Louisiana Supreme Court,” Vol. 24: 265 (2003).

Collins, Paul M., Jr., “Variable Voting Behavior on the Supreme Court: A Preliminary Analysis and Research Framework,” Vol. 25: 57 (2004).

Connors, John M., Case Comment, “Inherent Power of the Courts—Management Tool or Rhetorical Weapon?” Vol. 1/1: 63 (1974).

Cook, Beverly B., “A Critique of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1982 Agenda: Alternatives to the NYU Legal Model,” Vol. 17: 135 (1994).

Corbally, Sarah F., Donald C. Bross, and Victor E. Flango, “Filing of Amicus Curiae Briefs in State Courts of Last Resort:  1960-2000,” Vol. 25: 39 (2004).

Dahir, Veronica B.:  see Dobbin et al., Vol. 28: 1 (2007).

Ditslear, Corey A.:  see Williams and Ditslear, Vol 28: 135 (2007).

Dobbin, Shirley A., Sophia I. Gatowski, Rebecca N. Eyre, Veronica B. Dahir, Mara L. Merlino, and James T. Richardson, “Federal and State Trial Judges on the Proffer and Presentation of Expert Evidence,” Vol. 28: 1 (2007).

Eakins, Keith Rollin, and Karen Swenson, “An Analysis of the States’ Responses to Republican Party of Minnesota v. White,” Vol. 28/3: 371 (2007).

Edelstein, Charles D., Case Note, “And They Shall Beat Their Plowshares into Swords: An Examination of Three United States Supreme Court Decisions,” Vol. 2: 284  (1977).

Emmert, Craig F., “Litigants in the State Supreme Court Judicial Review Cases: Participation and Success,” Vol. 14-15: 486 (1991).

Emmert, Craig F., and Carol Ann Traut, “State Supreme Courts, State Constitutions, and Judicial Policymaking,” Vol. 16/1: 37 (1992).

Eyre, Rebecca N.:  see Dobbin et al., Vol 28: 1 (2007).

Feeney, Floyd, “The Role of Conflict in Appellate Decision Making,” Review of Goldman and Lamb, eds., Behavioral Studies of American Appellate Courts, Vol. 12: 269 (1987).

Flango, Victor E., “Case Selection in the Georgia and Illinois Supreme Courts,” Vol. 12: 384 (1987).

Fox, Richard, and Robert Van Sickel, “Gender Dynamics and Judicial Behavior in Criminal Trial Courts: An Exploratory Study,” Vol. 21: 261 (2000).

Gatowski, Sophia:  see Dobbin et al., Vol. 28: 1 (2007).

Haire, Susan, Review of Cohen, Inside Appellate Courts: The Impact of Court Organization on Judicial Decision Making in the United States Courts of Appeals, Vol. 25: 115 (2004).

Hall, Melinda Gann, “Docket Control as an Influence on Judicial Voting,” Vol. 10: 243 (1985).

Hall, Melinda Gann, “Small Group Influences in the United States Supreme Court,” Vol. 12: 359 (1987).

Howard, Robert M., “Comparing the Decision Making of Specialized Courts and General Courts: An Exploration of Tax Decision,” Vol. 26: 135 (2005).

Howard, Robert M., Legal Note, “I’m Sorry, Please Recuse Me Before I Hurt Myself,” Vol. 28/3: 442 (2007).

Howard, Robert M., Legal Note, “The Supreme Court Says Rules Are Rules:  Ballard v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Vol. 26: 219 (2005).

Howard, Robert M., Review of Bosworth, Courts as Catalysts: State Supreme Courts and Public School Finance Equity, Vol. 24: 237 (2003).

Howard, Robert M., and Christine H. Roch, “Policy Change and the State Courts: The Case of Education Finance Reform,” Vol. 22: 137 (2001).

Hurwitz, Mark, Legal Note, “Judges and the Rule of Necessity:  Ignacio and the Ninth Circuit’s Judges,” Vol. 28: 241 (2007).

Kress, Jack M., and Joseph C. Calpin, “Research Problems Encountered in Moving Towards Equity in Judicial Decision-Making,” Vol. 4: 71 (1978).

Lindquist, Stefanie A., and Kevin Pybas, “State Supreme Court Decisions to Overrule Precedent, 1965-1996,” Vol. 20: 17 (1998).

Lloyd, Randall D., Leonard B. Weinberg, and Elizabeth Francis, “An Exploration of State and Local Judge Mobility,” Vol. 22: 19 (2001).

Lochner, Todd, Legal Note, “The Freedom of Information Act, Personal Privacy, and Litigants,” Vol. 26: 222 (2005).

Lochner, Todd, Legal Note, “Judicial Recusal and the Search for the Bright Line,” Vol. 26: 231 (2005).

Merlino, Mara L.:  see Dobbin et al., Vol. 28: 1 (2007).

Mezey, Susan Gluck, Review of Feeley and Rubin, Judicial Policy Making and the Modern State: How the Courts Reformed America’s Prisons, Vol. 22: 94 (2001).

Mezey, Susan Gluck, Review of Popkin, Statutes in Court: The History and Theory of Statutory Interpretation, Vol. 21: 233 (2000).

Olson, Susan M., “Federal Multidistrict Litigation: Its Impact on Litigants,” Vol. 13: 341 (1988-89).

Palmer, Barbara, Review of Johnson, Oral Arguments and Decision Making on the United States Supreme Court, Vol. 26: 245 (2005).

Palmer, Jan, and Saul Brenner, Research Note, “The Law Clerks’ Recommendations and the Conference Vote On-the-Merits on the U.S. Supreme Court,” Vol. 18: 185  (1995).

Pinello, Daniel R., “Linking Party to Judicial Ideology in American Courts: A Meta-analysis,” Vol. 20: 219 (1999).

Price, Albert C., Charles Weber, and Ellis Perlman, “Judicial Discretion and Jail Overcrowding,” Vol. 8: 222 (1983).

Reddick, Malia, and Sara C. Benesh, “Norm Violation by the Lower Courts in the Treatment of Supreme Court Precedent: A Research Framework,” Vol. 21: 117 (2000).

Richardson, James T.:  see Dobbin et al., Vol. 28: 1 (2007).

Schafer, Joseph A., Thomas J. Martinelli, and D. Kall Loper, Research Note, “Decision Making Patterns in Police Use-of-Force Cases Before the Federal Courts of  Appeal: 1991-1996,” Vol. 22: 47 (2001).

Sheehan, Reginald S., Review of Yates, Popular Justice: Presidential Prestige and  Executive Success in the Supreme Court, Vol. 24: 226 (2003).

Smith, Christopher E., and John Hurst, “The Forms of Judicial Policymaking: Civil Liability and Criminal Justice Policy,” Vol. 19: 341 (1997).

Songer, Donald R., Martha Humphries Ginn, and Tammy A. Sarver, “Do Judges Follow the Law When There Is No Fear of Reversal?” Vol. 24: 137 (2003).

Songer, Donald R., Susan W. Johnson, and Ronald Stidham, “Presidential Success Through Appointments to the United States District Courts,” Vol. 24: 283 (2003).

Spaeth, Harold J., “Relisting: An Unexamined Feature of Supreme Court Decision Making,” Vol. 25: 143 (2004).

Spill, Rorie L., Review of Langer, Judicial Review in State Supreme Courts: A Comparative Study, Vol. 24: 228 (2003).

Sviridoff, Michele, “Bail Bonds and Cash Alternatives: The Influence of ‘Discounts’ on Bail-Making in New York City,” Vol. 11: 131 (1986).

Swanson, Rick A., “Judicial Perceptions of Voting Fluidity on State Supreme Courts,” Vol. 28: 199 (2007).

Swenson, Karen, “Federal District Court Judges and the Decision to Publish,” Vol. 25: 121 (2004).

Swenson, Karen: see Eakins and Swenson, Vol. 28/3: 371 (2007).

Tucker, Edwin W., Review of Jackson, Judges: An Inside View of the Agonies and  Excesses of an American Elite, Vol. 2: 99 (1976).

Walker, Thomas J., Review of Baum, Judges and Their Audiences:  A Perspective on Judicial Behavior, Vol. 28: 112 (2007).

Wasby, Stephen L., Legal Note, “Forcing Recusal as a Form of Judge Shopping,” Vol. 18: 204 (1995).

Wasby, Stephen L., “Getting the Message Across—Communicating Court Decisions to the Police,” Vol. 1/1: 29 (1974).

Wasby, Stephen L., Legal Note, “Judicial Responses to One-Person ‘Litigation Explosions,’” Vol. 14: 113 (1991).

Wasby, Stephen L., Legal Notes, “More on Religion in Court: Failed Challenges to Displays of the Ten Commandments,” Vol. 18: 335 (1996).

Wasby, Stephen L., Legal Note, “State Court Discretionary Jurisdiction and Federal Habeas Corpus,” Vol. 21: 89 (1999).

Wasby, Stephen L., Legal Note, “The Code of Judicial Conduct and Lawyers’ Ethics: A Little Case Study,” Vol. 28/3: 448 (2007).

Wasby, Stephen L., Legal Note, “The Ten Commandments in Court: A Follow-Up,” Vol. 20: 191 (1999).

Wilkerson, William R., The Emergence of Internet Citations in U.S. Supreme Court Opinions,” Vol. 27/3: 323 (2006).

Williams, Jimmy J., “Controlling the Judge’s Discretion: Appellate Review of Departures Made in Sentencing Guidelines Cases,” Vol. 17: 229 (1994).

Williams, Margaret S., and Corey A. Ditslear, “Bidding for Justice: The Influence of Attorneys’ Contributions on State Supreme Courts," Vol. 28: 135 (2007).

Yarnold, Barbara M., “Do Courts Respond to the Political Clout of Groups or to Their Superior Litigation Resources/ ‘Repeat Player’ Status?” Vol. 18: 29 (1995).

Yarnold, Barbara M., “Factors Related to Outcomes in Religious Freedoms Cases, Federal District Courts: 1970-1990,” Vol. 19: 181 (1997).

Yarnold, Barbara M., “Politicized Judicial and Congressional Asylum Policymaking, 1980-1987,” Vol. 17: 207 (1994).

Zemans, Frances Kahn, Review of Corsi, Judicial Politics: An Introduction; Vol. 10: 120 (1985).

 

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