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  • ISBN-10: 1608717437
  • ISBN-13: 9781608717439
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Law scholars Epstein (U. of Southern California), Jeffrey A. Segal (Stony Brook U.), Harold J. Spaeth (Michigan State U.), and Thomas G. Walker (Emory U.) put together a single-volume reference to the US Supreme Court for themselves, other instructors, students, researchers, journalists, and anyone else wanting information that is otherwise scattered widely. It covers an institutional perspective; review process, caseload, and cases; opinion, decision, and outcome trends; backgrounds, nominations, and confirmations of justices; post-confirmation activities and departures from the Court; oral arguments, votes, and opinions; the Court's political and legal environments; public opinion; and the impact of the Supreme Court. No dates are noted for earlier editions. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)



This comprehensive Fifth Edition is edited by highly prolific and foremost academics in the field.
Preface xv
About the Authors xix
Introduction xxi
1 The Supreme Court: An Institutional Perspective
1(62)
Table 1-1 Chronology of Important Events in the Supreme Court's History, 1787-2010
3(21)
Table 1-2 Chronology of Important Events in the Supreme Court's History Pertaining to Women, 1787-2010
24(4)
Table 1-3 Chronology of Important Events in the Supreme Court's History Pertaining to Minorities, 1787-2010
28(4)
Table 1-4 Brief Overview of the Supreme Court, 2011
32(3)
Table 1-5 Select Congressional Legislation Relating to the Supreme Court
35(3)
Table 1-6 Sections of the United States Code Pertaining to the Organization of the Supreme Court
38(1)
Table 1-7 Sections of the United States Code Pertaining to the Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court
39(2)
Table 1-8 Selected Internet Sites Relating to the Supreme Court
41(2)
Table 1-9 Supreme Court Budget Appropriations, 1930-2011
43(3)
Table 1-10 Supreme Court Budget, Fiscal Years 2009-2011
46(1)
Table 1-11 Salaries of the Justices, 1789-2011
47(1)
Table 1-12 Retirement and Pension Provisions for the Supreme Court Justices
48(2)
Table 1-13 Outline of the Rules of the Supreme Court of the United States
50(3)
Figure 1-1 The Processing of Supreme Court Cases
52(1)
Table 1-14 The Supreme Court's Calendar
53(1)
Table 1-15 Sections of the United States Code Pertaining to Supreme Court Officers and Employees
54(3)
Table 1-16 Supreme Court Employees: Full-time Permanent Positions, 1930-2011
57(3)
Table 1-17 Administrative Officers of the Supreme Court, 1790-2011
60(3)
2 The Supreme Court's Review Process, Caseload, and Cases
63(182)
Table 2-1 Supreme Court Rule 10: Considerations Governing Review on Certiorari
67(1)
Table 2-2 The Supreme Court's Caseload, 1880-2009 Terms
68(7)
Table 2-3 Cases on the Dockets of the Supreme Court, 1935-1969 Terms
75(2)
Table 2-4 Cases on the Dockets of the Supreme Court, 1970-2009 Terms
77(2)
Table 2-5 Petitions Granted Review, 1926-1969 Terms
79(3)
Table 2-6 Petitions Granted Review, 1970-2009 Terms
82(2)
Table 2-7 Guide to Oral Argument at the Supreme Court
84(4)
Table 2-8 Signed Opinions, Cases Disposed of by Signed Opinion, and Cases Disposed of by Per Curiam Opinion, 1926-2009 Terms
88(3)
Table 2-9 Reporting Systems
91(1)
Table 2-10 Where to Obtain Supreme Court Opinions
92(4)
Table 2-11 Formally Decided Cases by Issue Area, 1946-2009 Terms
96(7)
Table 2-12 Major Decisions of the Supreme Court: Congressional Quarterly, 1790-2009 Terms
103(59)
Table 2-13 Major Decisions of the Supreme Court: New York Times Measure, 1946-2010 Terms
162(25)
Table 2-14 Cases Incorporating Provisions of the Bill of Rights into the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
187(1)
Table 2-15 Supreme Court Decisions Holding Acts of Congress Unconstitutional in Whole or in Part, 1789-2009 Terms
188(5)
Table 2-16 Supreme Court Decisions Holding State Constitutional and Statutory Provisions and Municipal Ordinances Unconstitutional on Their Face or as Administered; and State and Local Laws Held Preempted by Federal Law, 1789-2009 Terms
193(31)
Table 2-17 Supreme Court Decisions Overruled by Subsequent Decisions, 1789-2009 Terms
224(21)
3 The Supreme Court's Opinion, Decision, and Outcome Trends
245(44)
Table 3-1 Unanimous Decisions, 1900-2009 Terms
247(3)
Table 3-2 Dissenting Opinions, 1801-2009 Terms
250(6)
Table 3-3 Concurring Opinions, 1801-2009 Terms
256(6)
Table 3-4 Cases Decided by a 5-4 or 4-3 Vote, 1801-2009 Terms
262(6)
Table 3-5 Cases Decided by a Judgment of the Court, 1946-2009 Terms
268(2)
Table 3-6 Disposition of Cases, 1946-2009 Terms
270(2)
Table 3-7 Direction of Court Decisions, by Issue Area and Chief Justice, 1946-2009 Terms
272(1)
Table 3-8 Direction of Court Decisions (Percentage Liberal), by Issue Area, 1946-2009 Terms
273(5)
Table 3-9 Means and Medians in Civil Liberties Cases, 1946-2009 Terms
278(2)
Table 3-10 Means and Medians in Criminal Cases, 1946-2009 Terms
280(2)
Table 3-11 Means and Medians in Economic Liberties Cases, 1946-2009 Terms
282(2)
Table 3-12 Means and Medians of Segal-Cover Scores, 1946-2010 Terms
284(2)
Table 3-13 Martin and Quinn's Estimated Locations of the Most Liberal, Median, and Most Conservative Ideal Points, 1937-2009 Terms
286(3)
4 The Justices: Backgrounds, Nominations, and Confirmations
289(136)
Table 4-1 The Justices of the United States Supreme Court
292(4)
Table 4-2 Birth and Childhood Statistics for the Justices
296(8)
Table 4-3 Family Background of the Justices
304(13)
Table 4-4 Education and Legal Training of the Justices
317(14)
Table 4-5 Marriages and Children of the Justices
331(5)
Table 4-6 Private Practice and Law Professorships of the Justices
336(11)
Table 4-7 Military Experience of the Justices
347(2)
Table 4-8 Political Experience of the Justices
349(14)
Table 4-9 Prior Judicial Experience of the Justices
363(8)
Table 4-10 Summary of Background Characteristics of the Justices
371(2)
Table 4-11 Personal Finances of the Justices, 2009
373(1)
Table 4-12 Supreme Court Nominees
374(8)
Table 4-13 Supreme Court Nominees and the Vacancies to Be Filled
382(10)
Table 4-14 Senate Judiciary Committee Action on Supreme Court Nominees
392(14)
Table 4-15 Senate Action on Supreme Court Nominees
406(10)
Table 4-16 American Bar Association Rating of Supreme Court Nominees, 1956-2011
416(2)
Table 4-17 Confirmation Factors, 1937-2010
418(2)
Table 4-18 Respondents Supporting or Opposing Nominees for the Supreme Court
420(1)
Table 4-19 Respondents' Impressions of the Withdrawal of Supreme Court Nominee Harriet Miers
421(1)
Table 4-20 Appointment Anomalies
422(3)
5 The Justices: Post-Confirmation Activities and Departures from the Court
425(118)
Table 5-1 Length of Service (Ranked)
428(3)
Table 5-2 Natural Courts
431(10)
Table 5-3 Circuit Justice Assignments, 1802-1867
441(2)
Table 5-4 Circuit Justice Assignments, 1867-2011
443(5)
Table 5-5 Extrajudicial Activities while Sitting on the Court
448(5)
Table 5-6 Impeachment Actions against Supreme Court Justices
453(1)
Table 5-7 Departure from the Court
454(6)
Table 5-8 Justices Rated "Great," Selected Studies
460(2)
Table 5-9 Post-Court Activities
462(5)
Table 5-10 The Deaths of the Justices
467(9)
Table 5-11 Locations of Justices' Personal Papers
476(9)
Table 5-12 Selected Books and Articles Written by the Justices
485(12)
Table 5-13 Classic Statements from the Bench
497(26)
Table 5-14 Published Biographies of the Justices
523(20)
6 The Justices: Oral Arguments, Votes, and Opinions
543(132)
Table 6-1 Ideological Values of the Justices, 1937-2009
547(2)
Table 6-2 Martin-Quinn Estimates of the Justices' Ideology and the Median Justice, 1937-2009 Terms
549(10)
Table 6-3 Number of Questions Asked by the Individual Justices During Oral Argument, 2005-2009 Terms
559(2)
Table 6-4 Aggregate Liberal Voting of Justices, 1946-2009 Terms
561(4)
Table 6-5 Liberal Voting of the Justices, by Term, 1946-2009
565(36)
Table 6-6 Voting Interagreements among the Justices, by Issue Area, 1946-2009 Terms
601(46)
Table 6-7 Votes in Support of and Opposition to Decisions Declaring Legislation Unconstitutional, 1946-2009 Terms
647(3)
Table 6-8 Votes in Support of and Opposition to Decisions Formally Altering Precedent, 1946-2009 Terms
650(2)
Table 6-9 Opinions of the Court, Dissenting Opinions, and Concurring Opinions, 1790-2009 Terms
652(3)
Table 6-10 Votes of the Justices, 1953-2009 Terms
655(1)
Table 6-11 Number of Solo Dissents, 1946-2009 Terms
656(1)
Table 6-12 Assignment and Authorship of Majority Opinion, 1946-1952 Terms
657(2)
Table 6-13 Assignment and Authorship of Majority Opinion, 1953-1960 Terms
659(2)
Table 6-14 Assignment and Authorship of Majority Opinion, 1961-1968 Terms
661(3)
Table 6-15 Assignment and Authorship of Majority Opinion, 1969-1977 Terms
664(2)
Table 6-16 Assignment and Authorship of Majority Opinion, 1978-1985 Terms
666(2)
Table 6-17 Assignment and Authorship of Majority Opinion, 1986-2004 Terms
668(4)
Table 6-18 Assignment and Authorship of Majority Opinion, 2005-2009 Terms
672(3)
7 The Supreme Court: Its Political and Legal Environments
675(74)
Table 7-1 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution Overturning Supreme Court Decisions
681(1)
Table 7-2 Cases in Which Members of Congress Filed Amicus Curiae Briefs, 1912-1998
681(4)
Table 7-3 Most Litigated Laws, Vinson through Roberts Courts, 1946-2009 Terms
685(2)
Table 7-4 Most Litigated Constitutional Provisions, Vinson through Roberts Courts, 1946-2009 Terms
687(2)
Table 7-5 Chairs of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary
689(2)
Table 7-6 Chairs of the House Committee on the Judiciary
691(2)
Table 7-7 Impeachment of Federal Judges and Justices
693(3)
Figure 7-1 Organizational Chart of the Department of Justice
695(1)
Table 7-8 Attorneys General of the United States
696(5)
Figure 7-2 Organizational Chart of the Office of the Solicitor General
700(1)
Table 7-9 Solicitors General of the United States
701(2)
Table 7-10 Success Rate of the United States as a Party to a Case before the Supreme Court, 1946-2009 Terms
703(1)
Table 7-11 Success Rate of the United States as a Party to a Case before the Supreme Court, by Issue Area and Chief Justice, 1946-2009 Terms
704(1)
Table 7-12 Position Taken by the Solicitor General as an Amicus Curiae in Cases before the Supreme Court, 1946-2001
705(1)
Table 7-13 Success Rate of the Solicitor General as an Amicus Curiae in Cases before the Supreme Court, 1946-2001 Terms
706(2)
Table 7-14 Success Rate of Federal Agencies as a Party to a Case before the Supreme Court, 1946-2009 Terms
708(2)
Table 7-15 Success Rate of Federal Agencies as a Party to a Case before the Supreme Court, by Issue Area, 1946-2009 Terms
710(1)
Table 7-16 Success Rate of Federal Agencies as a Party to a Case before the Supreme Court, by Agency, 1946-2009 Terms
711(2)
Table 7-17 Supreme Court Rulings against Presidents, Washington to G.W. Bush
713(1)
Table 7-18 Success Rate of States as a Party to a Case before the Supreme Court, 1946-2009 Terms
714(2)
Table 7-19 Success Rate of States as a Party to a Case before the Supreme Court, by Issue Area and Chief Justice, 1946-2009 Terms
716(1)
Table 7-20 Success Rates of States as a Party to a Case before the Supreme Court, by State, 1946-2009 Terms
717(2)
Table 7-21 Supreme Court Rule 37: Brief for Amicus Curiae
719(2)
Table 7-22 Supreme Court Cases Containing at Least One Amicus Curiae Brief, 1946-2001 Terms
721(3)
Figure 7-3 The American Court System
722(1)
Figure 7-4 The Federal Court System: United States Courts of Appeals and United States District Courts
723(1)
Table 7-23 Justices' Citations to Amicus Curiae Briefs, 1953-2004 Terms
724(1)
Table 7-24 The Development of the Federal Courts of Appeals
725(4)
Table 7-25 U.S. Court of Appeals Decisions Affirmed by the Supreme Court, 1946-2009 Terms
729(4)
Table 7-26 U.S. District Court Decisions Affirmed by the Vinson, Warren, Burger, Rehnquist, and Roberts Courts, 1946-2009
733(4)
Table 7-27 Article I Special Jurisdiction Courts
737(4)
Table 7-28 Article III Special Jurisdiction Courts
741(3)
Table 7-29 Specialized Court Decisions Affirmed by the Vinson, Warren, Burger, Rehnquist, and Roberts Courts, 1946-2009
744(10)
Table 7-30 State and Territorial Court Decisions Affirmed by the Vinson, Warren, Burger, Rehnquist, and Roberts Courts, 1946-2009
754
8 The Supreme Court and Public Opinion
749(36)
Table 8-1 Respondents Allowing Atheists to Perform Specified Activity
753(1)
Table 8-2 Respondents Allowing Racists to Perform Specified Activity
754(1)
Table 8-3 Respondents Allowing Homosexuals to Perform Specified Activity
755(1)
Table 8-4 Respondents Allowing Communists to Perform Specified Activity
756(1)
Table 8-5 Respondents Allowing Militarists to Perform Specified Activity
757(1)
Table 8-6 Respondents Favoring Capital Punishment, Various Polls
758(1)
Table 8-7 Respondents Believing Courts Not Harsh Enough with Criminals
759(1)
Table 8-8 Respondents on Wiretapping Issues
760(1)
Table 8-9 Respondents Approving of Brown v. Board of Education
761(1)
Table 8-10 Respondents Disapproving of Racial Intermarriage and Approving of Segregated Neighborhoods
762(1)
Table 8-11 Respondents Approving of Busing, Various Polls
763(1)
Table 8-12 Respondents Favoring Racial Preferences in Hiring or Promotion Where There Has Been Past Discrimination
764(1)
Table 8-13 Respondents Favoring Affirmative Action
764(1)
Table 8-14 Respondents Believing a Woman's Job Is to Take Care of the Home
765(1)
Table 8-15 Respondents Believing Past Job Discrimination against Women Should Result in Hiring Preferences Today
765(1)
Table 8-16 Respondents Believing Abortion Should Be Legal, Select Polls
766(2)
Table 8-17 Respondents Believing Information on Birth Control Should Be Legally Available, Select Polls
768(1)
Table 8-18 Respondents Believing Birth Control Should Be Available to Minors
768(1)
Table 8-19 Respondents Supporting Legal Abortion under Special Circumstances
769(1)
Table 8-20 Respondents Supporting Roe v. Wade, Select Polls
770(1)
Table 8-21 Respondents Believing Homosexual Behavior Is Wrong
771(1)
Table 8-22 Respondents Believing Homosexuals Should Have Equal Rights in Job Opportunities
772(1)
Table 8-23 Respondents Supporting Gay Marriage
772(1)
Table 8-24 Respondents Supporting Amendment Banning Gay Marriage
773(1)
Table 8-25 Respondents Believing Pornography Leads to a Breakdown in Morals
773(1)
Table 8-26 Respondents Approving of Supreme Court Decisions Preventing Organized Prayer or Bible Readings in Schools, Select Polls
774(1)
Table 8-27 Respondents Supporting an Individual's Right to Die, Various Polls
775(1)
Table 8-28 Respondents Believing the Supreme Court Is Too Liberal or Too Conservative
776(1)
Table 8-29 Respondents Having a Great Deal or Quite a Lot of Confidence in the Supreme Court, Various Polls
777(2)
Table 8-30 Public Reaction to Franklin D. Roosevelt's Plan to Enlarge the Supreme Court
779(1)
Table 8-31 Members of State, District, and Territorial Bars Favoring Franklin D. Roosevelt's Plan to Enlarge the Supreme Court (1937)
780(2)
Table 8-32 Respondents Believing That the Supreme Court's Decision in Bush v. Gore Mainly Reflected the Political Views or Partisan Politics of the Justices
782(1)
Table 8-33 Respondents Approving of or Agreeing with the Supreme Court's Decision in Bush v. Gore
782(1)
Table 8-34 Respondents Able to Name Supreme Court Justices (1989) and Chief Justice Rehnquist (1995)
783(1)
Table 8-35 Respondents Able to Name the Judge on the Television Show The People's Court (1989)
783(1)
Table 8-36 Respondents' Impressions of the Justices
784(1)
Table 8-37 Respondents' Impressions of Chief Justice
784(1)
9 The Impact of the Supreme Court
785(24)
Table 9-1 Legal Abortions, 1966-2005
790(1)
Table 9-2 The Death Penalty in the States: Numbers of Inmates Executed and Awaiting Execution
791(2)
Table 9-3 Black Children in Elementary and Secondary Schools with White Children: Southern and Border States, 1954-1973
793(1)
Table 9-4 School Desegregation by Region, 1968-2005
794(2)
Table 9-5 Percentage of Black Students in Majority White Schools, 1954-1998
796(1)
Table 9-6 Law School Enrollment and Graduation, Percentage Minority and Female, 1971-2010
797(1)
Table 9-7 Voter Registration Rates in Eleven Southern States, by Race, 1960-2000
798(2)
Table 9-8 Reported Registration of the Voting-Age Population, by Sex, Race and Hispanic Origin, for Eleven Southern States: November 2008 (In thousands)
800(5)
Table 9-9 Number of Political Action Committees (PACs), by Type, 1974-2009
805(1)
Table 9-10 PACs: Receipts, Expenditures, and Contributions, 1975-2008
806(1)
Table 9-11 Legislative Districting: Deviations from Equality in Congressional Districts
807(2)
Selected Readings 809(8)
Index 817
Lee Epstein (PhD, Emory University) is the University Professor of Law & Political Science and the Hilliard Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Southern California. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. A recipient of 12 grants from the National Science Foundation, Epstein has authored or co-authored more than 100 articles and essays and 18 books. She is currently co-editing The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Judicial Behaviour. Professor Epsteins empirical research is frequently cited in the New York Times, among other news media.

Jeffrey A. Segal is SUNY Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Political Science Department at Stony Brook University. He is coauthor of eight books, including Advice and Consent: The Politics of Judicial Appointments (2005), with Lee Epstein; The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model Revisited, with Harold J. Spaeth (2002), the original edition of which won the 2005 Wadsworth Award for a book that has made a lasting influence on the field of law and courts; and Majority Rule or Minority Will: Adherenceto Precedent on the U.S. Supreme Court (1999), also with Harold J. Spaeth, which won the C. Herman Pritchett Award for best book on law and courts. He was a 20112012 Guggenheim Foundation grant winner and spent that year as a senior research fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University.

Harold J. Spaeth is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Michigan State University, and Research Professor at the Universitys College of Law and in the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research. He is the recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the Law and Courts section of the American Political Science Association. He is the author or coauthor of The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model Revisited (2002), with Jeffrey A. Segal, the original edition of which won the Wadsworth Award; Majority Rule or Minority Will (1999), also with Jeffrey A. Segal, which won the C. Herman Pritchett Award; Stare Indecisis: Alteration of Precedent on the Supreme Court (1995), with Saul Brenner; Supreme Court Policy Making: Explanation and Prediction (1979); and Supreme Court Decision Making (1976), with David Rohde. He is also the creator and compiler of a series of National Science Foundationsupported U.S. Supreme Court databases.

Thomas G. Walker (PhD, University of Kentucky) is the Goodrich C. White Professor Emeritus at Emory University, where he won several teaching awards for his courses on constitutional law and the judicial process. His book A Court Divided, written with Deborah J. Barrow, won the prestigious V. O. Key Award for the best book on Southern politics. He is the author of Eligible for Execution and coauthor of The Supreme Court Compendium: Data, Decisions, and Developments, 7th Edition, with Lee Epstein, Jeffrey A. Segal, and Harold J. Spaeth.