Felix Frankfurter
Felix Frankfurter 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Frankfurter | 1955 | 0.695 |
| Frankfurter | 1956 | 0.902 |
| Frankfurter | 1957 | 1.278 |
| Frankfurter | 1958 | 1.601 |
| Frankfurter | 1959 | 1.765 |
| Frankfurter | 1960 | 1.841 |
| Frankfurter | 1961 | 1.853 |
| Court median | 1955 | 0.074 |
| Court median | 1956 | 0.260 |
| Court median | 1957 | 0.610 |
| Court median | 1958 | 0.544 |
| Court median | 1959 | 0.434 |
| Court median | 1960 | 0.535 |
| Court median | 1961 | 0.178 |
Where Frankfurter 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Federal Taxation | 0.687 | 1717 | |
| Civil Rights | 0.638 | 1717 | |
| Due Process | 0.577 | 1717 | |
| Federalism | 0.535 | 1717 | |
| Criminal Procedure | 0.523 | 1717 | |
| First Amendment | 0.480 | 1717 | |
| Unions | 0.434 | 1717 | |
| Economic Activity | 0.396 | 1717 | |
| Judicial Power | 0.274 | 1717 |
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