Social Identity Cues in U.S. Supreme Court Judicial Decision-Making

Replication Data for the article 'Social Identity Group Cues in Judicial Ideology and Decision-Making on the U.S. Supreme Court' provides the underlying data and analysis code. The dataset was authored by Robert Robinson and is hosted by Harvard Dataverse. It was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze correlations between judge-specific identity variables and case outcome votes.
• Model judicial ideology scores using case-level features and justice background data.
• Test hypotheses on the effect of social group cues, referenced in the title, on decision patterns across different case types.
• Reproduce the article's statistical analyses and figures using the provided code and data variables.

Strengths

• Includes complete replication code for analyses, tables, and figures from the peer-reviewed article.
• Hosted on the authoritative Harvard Dataverse platform, ensuring preservation and citation.

Limitations

• Specific row count, column count, and temporal coverage of the case data are unknown.
• The dataset's scope is limited to the U.S. Supreme Court, not lower courts.

Provenance

Source

Harvard Dataverse, authored by Robert Robinson.

Collection Method

Created for academic replication; original data collection method from the article is not detailed here.

Freshness

Last updated April 2026, indicating recent maintenance.

Geography

United States, specifically the U.S. Supreme Court.