Stare indecisis : the alteration of precedent on the Supreme Court, 1946-1992
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Stare indecisis : the alteration of precedent on the Supreme Court, 1946-1992
Cambridge University Press, 1995
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Although the concept of precedent is basic to the operation of the legal system, there has not yet been a full-length empirical study of why US Supreme Court justices have chosen to alter precedent. This book attempts to fill this gap by analyzing those decisions of the Vinson, Warren, and Burgers courts, as well as the first six terms of the Rehnquist Court - a span of 47 years (1946-1992) - which formally altered precedent. The authors summarize previous studies of precedent and the Court, assess the conference voting of justices, and compile a list of overruling and overruled cases. Additionally, the authors draw a distinction between personal and instituional stare decisis. By using the attitudinal model of Supreme Court decision making, the authors find that it is the individual justices' ideologies which explain their voting behavior.
Table of Contents
- 1. Preface
- 2. A survey of the empirical literature
- 3. A list of cases
- 4. Some characteristics of the overruling and the overruled cases
- 5. The conference votes
- 6. Attitudinal voting
- 7. Personal and institutional stare decisis
- 8. Ideology
- 9. Conclusion
- Appendices.
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