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Supreme Court Justice Database

Personal and historical ideological data on US Supreme Court justices

Originator: Lee Epstein, Thomas G. Walker, Nancy Staudt, Scott Hendrickson, and Jason Roberts

(12 columns, 706 rows)

Examples

Basic Examples

View the data:

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ResourceData["Supreme Court Justice Database"]
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Visualization

Plot birthplaces of Supreme Court justices:

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GeoListPlot[ ResourceData["Supreme Court Justice Database"][All, "justiceBirthPlace"] // DeleteDuplicates]
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Plot ideological scores over time for recent members of the Supreme Court:

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With[{scotusTS = TimeSeries /@ Values /@ GroupBy[ResourceData["Supreme Court Justice Database"], "justiceName"][[All, All, {"term", "post_mn"}]]}, DateListPlot[ scotusTS[{"Thomas", "Scalia", "Roberts", "Kennedy", "Ginsburg", "Sotomayor", "Breyer", "Alito", "Kagan"}]]]
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Wolfram Research, "Supreme Court Justice Database" from the Wolfram Data Repository (2016)   https://doi.org/10.24097/wolfram.50981.data

Data Resource History

  • Date Created:

Source Metadata

  • Title: The United States Supreme Court Justices Database
  • Creator: Epstein, Lee, Thomas G. Walker, Nancy Staudt, Scott Hendrickson, and Jason Roberts
  • Publisher: Lee Epstein & the Law School of Washington University in St. Louis
  • Date: 2013
  • Description: A database on individual U.S. Supreme Court Justices and various variables including personalities and service on the Court's bench.
  • Coverage: United States, 1791-2015
  • Language: English
  • Source: The United States Supreme Court Justices Database

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Publisher Information

  • Publisher of Record: Wolfram Research