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Interesting empirical examination of SCOTUS cert granting

By Douglas A. Berman

Especially in the criminal justice arena, what the Supreme Court decides to decide is almost as important as what they decide.  Thus, I am always excited to see a new analysis and assessment of how the Justices' pick their cases.  This piece on SSRN, titled " An Empirical Analysis of Supreme Court Certiorari Petition Procedures: The Call for Response and the Call for the Views of the Solicitor General," looks worthy of review by both academics and practitioners.  Here is the abstract: The Supreme Court frequently uses two tools to gather information about which cases to hear following a petition for writ of certiorari: the call for response and the call for the views of the Solicitor General.  To date, there has been no empirical analysis of how the Supreme Court deploys these tools and little qualitative study...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 14, 2009 (boomark / email).