Tag: Adam Feldman

The justices clearly assert their uniqueness with their concurrences and as this is on display, they show how the justices may be more different than meets the eye.

We recently used Optimized Legal Audio (OLA) to try to read the tea leaves on the audio footprint of the SEC v. Jarkesy case. Here are the results.

Optimized Legal Audio is an artificial intelligence engine in its infancy that tries to hear what judges say, read the language they use, and through this to infer their relative preference for one attorney’s argument over another’s.

Just how different is the start of this term compared with past terms?

Will the current Court be able to shed its stereotype of an ideological body with a strong conservative bent?

Why do the justices divide in their votes and to what extent is this divergence based on political factors?

Qualitatively, the justices do not always seem eye to eye. This post looks at the individual justices’ practices and votes in relation to each of the federal circuit courts of appeal.

When are the justices engaged? Which justices interact with one another during arguments? How will all of this play out when opinions are finally released?

Who should we expect to author the next set of the Court’s decisions? There are a few ways to derive a prediction for this.

With only a few spots at this upper echelon of Supreme Court practice, how do attorneys get repeat player experience?

O’Connor was notable for much more than her gender — she was quite unique in nuanced ways, some of which went well under the radar.

Justice Jackson is something like we’ve never seen in oral argument. While she doesn’t significantly diminish the participation of her colleagues, she is by far the most active justice at oral argument.

Justice Jackson is far ahead of the rest of the justices in terms of word counts from oral arguments. But do (or why do) word counts matter?

… Circuit, that is. The importance of Fifth during the October 2023 term.

The Supreme Court utilizes lower court citations to support its positions even though they are non-binding and not even as persuasive as previous Supreme Court decisions.

We are beginning to see a picture of what this coming term at the Court will look like.

A matrix for scoring the justices in terms of relative power.

Which justices cited the most law journal articles in their opinions?

What's going on with the liberal justices and their dissents?

Justice Jackson had a historic term in more ways than one, including her word counts at oral argument.