Abe Fortas
Abe Fortas is in the ideology file. Vote totals for the full service are not in this fixture.
Ideology over time
Martin-Quinn score by term against the Court median. Negative is liberal. Scores are relative to the docket. Intervals are not in this file. A single term is noisy.
Table
| series | term | martin_quinn |
|---|---|---|
| Fortas | 1965 | -1.256 |
| Fortas | 1966 | -1.352 |
| Fortas | 1967 | -1.162 |
| Fortas | 1968 | -1.018 |
| Court median | 1965 | -0.608 |
| Court median | 1966 | -0.315 |
| Court median | 1967 | -0.961 |
| Court median | 1968 | -0.971 |
Where Fortas came down, by issue
Share of votes coded liberal. The first-run issue table suppresses cells under 25 votes and does not publish a separate Court rate for this justice. Direction before 1946 is excluded.
Table
| issue | justice_liberal | court_liberal | n |
|---|---|---|---|
| Civil Rights | 0.852 | 525 | |
| Criminal Procedure | 0.813 | 525 | |
| First Amendment | 0.808 | 525 | |
| Economic Activity | 0.732 | 525 | |
| Judicial Power | 0.392 | 525 |
At oral argument stage 3
Words per argument, questions to each side, interruptions given and received, and whether the side questioned more went on to lose. Formats are never pooled.
Source: Oyez speaker turns
Writing style stage 2
Words per opinion, reading grade, citations per thousand words, and the share of case versus statutory citations.
Source: CourtListener opinion text
Reasoning profile stage 6
Which reasoning techniques appear, against the Court average over the same terms. Validation accuracy prints beside the chart.
Source: Taxonomy classifier over opinion text
Before the Court stage 8
Pre-appointment opinions, reversal record and panel agreement.
Source: CourtListener, labeled by coverage