Partisanship and Nineteenth Century Federal Judges: An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Decisions from 1790 to 1880

• In Event: The U.S. Courts of Appeals

Brief Overview

Employing an original dataset of 19,000 federal cases decided between 1790 and 1880, this paper seeks to understand the relationship between political parties and judicial decision-making on the federal courts in the early United States.

Author

• Sean Daly, Northern Illinois University