9+ hour, 46+ min ago  (785+ words) Legalytics | Adam Feldman At the Court's Front Door: Who Files, Who Stays, and Who Draws Amici at the Cert Stage The Supreme Court's agenda begins before the merits. The data show who occupied that gatekeeping stage most often'and who brought…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago  (333+ words) Oral argument at the Supreme Court is often treated as theater " a ritual of pointed questions and nervous advocates that rarely changes the outcome. But a careful look at how justices actually behave during argument, turn by turn, offers something…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago  (460+ words) Legalytics | Adam Feldman So You Want to Be a Top-Ranked Appeals Attorney Chambers & Partners compiles yearly rankings but the comparisons between advocates are opaque. This article uses a data backed method to provide profiles of the nations 71 top appellate advocates....

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (622+ words) That distinction matters because it helps explain both the vote and the case's likely afterlife. The Coalition Is More Unusual in First Amendment Cases Than on the Docket as a Whole That is the first piece of context. The second…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (265+ words) Legalytics | Adam Feldman Argument Analysis: What the Transcript Data Reveal in Trump v. Barbara The birthright citizenship argument was deeply originalist, doctrinally concentrated, and asymmetrically pressured " and the numbers confirm it. The Supreme Court heard just over two hours of oral…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (1160+ words) This is the first post in a new series: Data on Appeal " where I break down cases that have important local and national consequences focusing on what the court will decide and what the numbers surrounding the case suggest. Oklahoma…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (263+ words) How the differences sound on the page This article uses a matched-pair design to compare 18 Trump-appointed federal appellate judges with 18 earlier judges from the same courts, often using seat-successor or close same-circuit matches. The goal is to test whether the…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (183+ words) The dataset created for the previous Legalytics article covers 41 argued cases and 15, 363 speaking turns. The majority-authorship analysis draws on the 15 OT2025 cases with majority opinions available at the time of the run; the separate-opinion analysis uses 22 concurrences and dissents across 12 slip…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (718+ words) The result is a term in which oral argument data tracks the larger feel of the docket: high stakes, high intensity, and a court that knows many of its cases are being heard not only by the lawyers in the…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (327+ words) Amicus briefs are a routine feature of Supreme Court merits litigation. What is less often examined is whether they matter, how they organize around particular advocates, and what the resulting ecosystem reveals about coalition structure across cases and terms. A…...