Replication data supports research on how disagreements in lower courts influence agenda setting in Australia's highest court. The dataset was created by Patrick Leslie for the Journal of Law and Courts and was last updated in March 2026.
Use Cases
- Analyze the relationship between lower_court_disagreement metrics and high_court_certiorari_decision outcomes.
- Model agenda_setting cues using case_features like party_type, legal_issue, and lower_court_judge_votes.
- Examine temporal trends in case_selection by correlating docket_year with measures of inter-court conflict.
Strengths
- Data supports a peer-reviewed article published in the Journal of Law and Courts.
- Includes replication files for verifying published analysis.
Limitations
- Unknown row count and column list limit assessment of statistical power.
- Scope is restricted to the High Court of Australia, limiting generalizability.
Provenance
- Source
- Journal of Law and Courts Dataverse.
- Collection Method
- Created for replicating a published academic article.
- Freshness
- Last updated March 2026.
- Geography
- Australia.