Does the Argument Matter? Using Text Analysis of Merits Briefs to Study U.S. Supreme Court Decision-Making

• In Event: Text as Data in Judicial Politics

Brief Overview

To conduct an analysis of how the arguments in briefs influence judicial decision-making, I use supervised machine learning to create a novel dataset of citations used in Supreme Court merits briefs since 1979..

Author

• Jessica A. Schoenherr, Michigan State University