SupremeCourt            package:MCMCpack            R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     This dataframe contains a matrix votes cast by U.S. Supreme Court
     justices in all cases in the 2000 term.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(SupremeCourt)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     The dataframe has contains data for justices Rehnquist, Stevens,
     O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas, Ginsburg, and Breyer
     for the 2000 term of the U.S. Supreme Court.  It contains data
     from 43 non-unanimous cases. The votes are coded liberal (1) and
     conservative (0) using the protocol of Spaeth (2003).   The unit
     of analysis is the case citation (ANALU=0).  We are concerned with
     formally decided cases issued with written opinions, after full
     oral argument and cases decided by an equally divided vote
     (DECTYPE=1,5,6,7).

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     Harold J. Spaeth. 2005. _Original United States Supreme Court
     Database:  1953-2004 Terms._ <URL:
     http://www.as.uky.edu/polisci/ulmerproject/sctdata.htm>.

