Judicial Career Patterns and Majority Opinion Assignment on the Supreme Court

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Previous articleNext article No AccessResearch NotesJudicial Career Patterns and Majority Opinion Assignment on the Supreme CourtElliot E. SlotnickElliot E. Slotnick Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Politics Volume 41, Number 2May, 1979 Sponsored by the Southern Political Science Association Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/2129783 Views: 5Total views on this site Citations: 15Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1979 Southern Political Science AssociationPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Erin B. Kaheny, John Szmer, Robert K. Christensen Status characteristics and their intersectionality: majority opinion assignment in state supreme courts, Politics, Groups, and Identities 8, no.55 (Feb 2019): 894–917.https://doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2019.1569538Drew Noble Lanier Acclimation Effects and the Chief Justice: The Influence of Tenure and Role on the Decisional Behavior of the Court’s Leader, 1888-2007, American Politics Research 39, no.44 (Jul 2011): 682–723.https://doi.org/10.1177/1532673X11401813Drew Lanier Acclimation Effects and the Chief Justice: The Influence of Tenure on the Decisional Behavior of the Court’s Leader, 1888-2007, SSRN Electronic Journal (Jan 2011).https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1846631Solomon Omoregie Ukhuegbe Recruitment and Tenure of Supreme Court Justices in Nigeria, SSRN Electronic Journal (Jan 2011).https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2034920Forrest Maltzman, Paul J. Wahlbeck A Conditional Model of Opinion Assignment on the Supreme Court, Political Research Quarterly 57, no.44 (Dec 2004): 551–563.https://doi.org/10.1177/106591290405700404Lori Hausegger, Stacia Haynie Judicial Decisionmaking and the Use of Panels in the Canadian Supreme Court and the South African Appellate Division, Law <html_ent glyph="@amp;" ascii="&"/> Society Review 37, no.33 (Sep 2003): 635–657.https://doi.org/10.1111/1540-5893.3703006C. L. Ostberg, Matthew E. Wetstein, Craig R. Ducat Acclimation Effects on the Supreme Court of Canada: A Cross-Cultural Examination of Judicial Folklore *, Social Science Quarterly 84, no.33 (Aug 2003): 704–722.https://doi.org/10.1111/1540-6237.8403013Saul Brenner, Timothy M. Hagle Opinion writing and acclimation effect, Political Behavior 18, no.33 (Sep 1996): 235–261.https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01498601Timothy M. Hagle A NEW TEST FOR THE FRESHMAN EFFECT, Southeastern Political Review 21, no.22 (Nov 2008): 289–308.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-1346.1993.tb00364.xTerry Bowen, John M. Scheb Reassessing the “freshman effect”: The voting bloc alignment of new justices on the United States Supreme Court, 1921–90, Political Behavior 15, no.11 (Mar 1993): 1–14.https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00993413J. F. Kobylka Leadership on the Supreme Court of the United States: Chief Justice Burger and the Establishment Clause, Political Research Quarterly 42, no.44 (Dec 1989): 545–568.https://doi.org/10.1177/106591298904200407Peter J. Bergerson JUDICIAL BACKGROUND TRAITS UNDER THE MERIT SELECTION PLAN: THE MISSOURI COURT PLAN REVISITED, Southeastern Political Review 15, no.22 (Nov 2008): 169–188.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-1346.1987.tb00241.x Edward V. Heck , and Melinda Gann Hall Bloc Voting and The Freshman Justice Revisited, The Journal of Politics 43, no.33 (Oct 2015): 852–860.https://doi.org/10.2307/2130641 Steven A. Peterson Dissent in American Courts, The Journal of Politics 43, no.22 (Oct 2015): 412–434.https://doi.org/10.2307/2130375 Gregory J. Rathjen Conventional Wisdoms Don't Die Easily: Judicial Career Patterns and the Context of Majority Opinion Assignment, The Journal of Politics 42, no.44 (Oct 2015): 1170–1172.https://doi.org/10.2307/2130746