Over 70 years of writs of certiorari petitions to the US Supreme Court from 1946 to 2019 were analyzed by Sahar Abi-Hassan. The data traces petition composition, origin, and disposition across different eras and jurisdictions. This research provides a supply-side baseline for understanding the Court's agenda-setting process.
Use Cases
- Analyzing trends in petition_date and petitioner_identity to study the evolution of case filings over time.
- Modeling petition disposition outcomes based on origin jurisdiction and petitioner type.
- Investigating geographic bias by mapping petition_origin to identify uneven representation across regions.
- Comparing success rates between institutional repeat players and individual petitioners using disposition data.
- Correlating merits-stage attributes with petition characteristics to understand docket selection criteria.
Strengths
- Covers the universe of writs of certiorari from 1946 to 2019, a 73-year period.
- Links petition data to merits-stage attributes for downstream analysis.
Limitations
- Specific row count, column count, and sample size are not provided.
- Data may have geographic and organizational biases as noted in the study.
Provenance
- Source
- Journal of Law and Courts Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Coding of petition date, origin, petitioner identity, and disposition from the complete pool of petitions.
- Time Range
- 1946–2019
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- United States federal and state jurisdictions.