Judicial characteristics and judicial decision-making study, 1955
By: principal investigator, Stuart S. Nagel
Series: ICPSR -- 7084; ICPSR (Series) -- 7084
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Subjects: Judges
Description: The data consist of information on the judges serving on state and federal supreme courts in 1955. Background information was obtained from standard biographical sources, judicial decision measures were derived from court records. The variables measure party identification, organizational affiliations, judicial decision scores in over a dozen separate areas, and the career history of judges.
Notes: Holding archive: Criminal Justice Archive and Information Network

ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Chronological coverage: 1955.

United States.

The study contains non-numeric codes.

313 respondents, 1 card of data per respondent; approximately 50 variables.

Nagel, Stuart S. ''Political Party Affiliation and Judges' Decisions,'' 55 American Political Science Review, pp. 843, 1961.

Nagel, Stuart S. ''Multiple Correlations of Judicial Backgrounds and Decisons,'' 2 Florida State University Law Review, pp. 258, 1974.