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Who Wins In The Supreme Court? An Examination Of Attorney And Law Firm Influence, Adam Feldman
Who Wins In The Supreme Court? An Examination Of Attorney And Law Firm Influence, Adam Feldman
Marquette Law Review
Who are the most successful attorneys in the Supreme Court? A novel way to answer this question is by looking at attorneys’ relative influence on the course of the law. This article performs macro and micro-level analyses of the most successful Supreme Court litigators by examining the amount of language shared between nearly 9,500 Supreme Court merits briefs and their respective Supreme Court opinions from 1946 through 2013. The article also includes analyses of the most successful law firms according to the same metric.
Brandeis: The Legacy Of A Justice, Joel K. Goldstein, Charles A. Miller
Brandeis: The Legacy Of A Justice, Joel K. Goldstein, Charles A. Miller
Marquette Law Review
One hundred years after his appointment, Justice Louis D. Brandeis remains a distinctive and unusually influential figure in the history of the Supreme Court. Unlike many other great justices, Brandeis is not remembered for his majority opinions. Rather, what is distinctive about him is the extent to which so many of his dissents and concurring opinions continue to influence justices more than 75 years after he retired and a century after he joined the Court. Whereas justices cite majority opinions for their value as legal precedents, they invoke the dissents and concurrences of a retired justice due to the power …