GVPT 872 Fall 2007

Reference Materials
Useful Data-base and Information sites

Oyez project: Oral arguments

Thomas: Legislation

Overrulings U.S. Supreme Court opinions subsequently overturned

Briefs and other filings by the U.S. Solicitor General in cases before the Supreme Court, 1982-

Federal Statistics (from 70 Agencies). FEDSTATS

Social Science Data Sets. UC San Diego

Law Data Sets. ICPSR

A Few Additional Sites that might be useful

The Choices Justices Make. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 1998. Lee Epstein and Jack Knight. Data.
U.S. Courts of Appeals Data Base Phase I (1925-1988). Donald R. Songer.
U.S. Supreme Court Judicial Data Base. Harold J. Spaeth
The State Supreme Court Data Project (Rice University and Michigan State University)
Papers presented at the most recent APSA Conferences