The Costs of Supreme Court Decisions: Towards A Best Cost-Avoider Theory of Constitutional Law

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron Tang
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Court Decisions ◽  
Supreme Court Decisions

Reply to Fisher's Mathematical Analysis of Supreme Court Decisions

1958 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 339-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred Kort
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Mathematical Analysis ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
The State ◽  
Court Decisions ◽  
General Statement ◽  
Court Action ◽  
Supreme Court Decisions ◽  
Judicial Doctrine

We have had many reminders of the limits and risks of statistical predictions about human behavior. When I ventured last year to offer a formula describing Supreme Court action in the state “right to counsel” cases over a period of years, I was mainly concerned to show that, contrary to accepted judicial doctrine about decisions in unique cases, consistencies in the Court's collective judgments could be demonstrated in this area, and stated in quantitative terms. I did not suppose that the formula was more than a method of approximation. I did not offer it as the perfect formula, or the only one; and in particular I did not claim that it was capable of indefinite extension to other areas of constitutional law. An exploratory effort begins with what is available. But I did take into account, so far as the available data permitted, not only the Court's decisions, but also the votes of individual justices on each of the pivotal factors on which their positions could be identified or imputed. I did not claim more for the product than that, so far, it works. With this general statement, let me turn to Fisher's article.

The Constitutional Law of Japan: Selected Supreme Court Decisions, 1961-70

1980 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 144
Author(s):  
Edward McWhinney ◽  
Hiroshi Itoh ◽  
Lawrence Ward Beer
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Court Decisions ◽  
Supreme Court Decisions
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