U.S. Supreme Court Voting on Stays and Injunctions with Merits Positions

Replication data for the study "Merits Positions and Supreme Court Voting on Stays and Injunctions" by Greg Goelzhauser. The dataset was last updated on May 20, 2026, and is hosted by the Journal of Law and Courts Dataverse. It likely contains records of Supreme Court justice votes on procedural motions.

Use Cases

• Analyze voting patterns of Supreme Court justices based on their merits positions.
• Model the relationship between procedural votes and case outcomes.
• Replicate statistical findings from the associated academic study.
• Study the use of stays and injunctions as procedural tools in the U.S. Supreme Court.

Strengths

• Data is explicitly provided for academic replication, supporting research transparency.
• Associated with a peer-reviewed journal (Journal of Law and Courts), suggesting academic rigor.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.

Provenance

Source

Journal of Law and Courts Dataverse

Collection Method

Likely compiled from Supreme Court records for academic research.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-20 22:41:32; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United States