The Length of Judicial Opinions

Psychologic Study of Judicial Opinions

Advisory Opinions: Cautions About Non-Judicial Undertakings

Moral sentiment in judicial opinions on abortion.

Recent opinions of the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs.

The text is provided of three Council opinions that were adopted by the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association at its annual meeting in June 1986. "Referral of patients--disclosure of limitations" holds that, if a preferred provider organization or a health maintenance organization contract does not permit referral to a noncontracting specialist or facility when the physician b...

Elections and Explanations: Judicial Elections and the Readability of Judicial Opinions

How do judicial elections affect the propensity of judges to write opinions that are understandable to the public? Drawing on a growing literature that analyzes the content of judicial opinions computationally, I examine the readability of all state supreme court search and seizure decisions from 2000-2010. I assess the hypothesis that, just as judicial elections increase judges’ propensities t...