RT Monograph
SR 00
A1 Chen, Daniel L.
A1 Cui, Xing
A1 Shang, Lanyu
A1 Zheng, Junchao
T1 What Matters: Agreement Between U.S. Courts of Appeals Judges
YR 2016
FD 2016-12
VO 16-747
SP 10
AB Federal courts are a mainstay of the justice system in the United States. In this study, we analyze 387,898 cases from U.S. Courts of Appeals, where judges are randomly assigned to panels of three. We predict which judge dissents against co-panelists and analyze the dominant features that predict such dissent with a particular attention to the biographical features that judges share. Random forest, a method developed in Breiman (2001), achieves the best classification. Dissent is predominantly driven by case features, though personal features also predict agreement.
T2 TSE Working Paper
PB TSE Working Paper
PP Toulouse
AV Published
LK https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/22673/
UL http://tse-fr.eu/pub/31299