Of Time and Judicial Behavior
Subtitle: United States Supreme Court Agenda Setting and Decision-Making, 1888-1997
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
Published: June 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781575910673
Subjects: Courts & procedure; 20th century; Legal History; History; Politics / Current Events; United States.; Law; USA; Courts - Supreme Court; General; Constitutional history; Judicial process; Supreme Court; United States
Description: "The present study examines the agenda-setting and the decision-making of the U.S. Supreme Court across a period that encompasses several wars, a Great Depression, a president's attempt to pack the Court, and changes in the Court's jurisdiction. Accordingly, it paints a broad historical picture of the Court, longer than any previous study of those aspects of its business. It provides a wealth of data on the opinions that the Court issued and what issues the Court found most compelling across more than a century of jurisprudence, adding to its value as a research tool."--Jacket.