We begin our analysis by selecting the parameters of the data library. Since this research is intended primarily as a tool for civil appellate practice in full-service firms like mine, we limit the scope of the cases we study in order to ensure that trends elsewhere in the law do not obscure the Court’s decision-making
Testing Conventional Wisdom with Data Analytics
Appellate lawyers are to a considerable degree in the business of anticipating the views and inclinations of appellate judges and justices. At every phase of litigation, whether it be selecting cases which should (or should not) be brought before an appellate court, to crafting arguments in a way most likely to garner the votes of
Bringing the Power of Decision Making Analysis to Appellate Law
Academics in various disciplines have been developing sophisticated tools for analyzing the dynamics of group decision making for many years. The leading figures in this research have been mostly law and politics professors, along with a number of economists, and their methods have included data analytics, game theory, organization theory and behavioral economics, to name