R: U.S. Supreme Court Vote Matrix, Rehnquist Court (1994-2004)
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U.S. Supreme Court Vote Matrix, Rehnquist Court (1994-2004)
Description
This dataframe contains a matrix of votes cast by U.S. Supreme
Court justices by all cases in the 1994-2004 terms.
Usage
data(SupremeCourt)
Format
The dataframe has contains data for justices Rehnquist, Stevens,
O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas, Ginsburg, and Breyer
for the 1994-2004 terms of the U.S. Supreme Court. The dataframe
also contains the term of the case, and a time variable that counts
from term 1 to 11. The votes are coded liberal (1)
and conservative (0) using the protocol of Spaeth (2003).
The unit of analysis
is the case citation (ANALU=0). We are concerned with formally
decided cases issued with written opinions, after full oral
argument and cases decided by an equally divided vote
(DECTYPE=1,5,6,7).