John Paul Stevens
John Paul Stevens 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stevens | 1975 | 0.031 |
| Stevens | 1976 | -0.134 |
| Stevens | 1977 | -0.024 |
| Stevens | 1978 | -0.305 |
| Stevens | 1979 | -0.281 |
| Stevens | 1980 | -0.278 |
| Stevens | 1981 | -0.268 |
| Stevens | 1982 | -0.565 |
| Stevens | 1983 | -0.619 |
| Stevens | 1984 | -0.509 |
| Stevens | 1985 | -0.486 |
| Stevens | 1986 | -0.597 |
| Stevens | 1987 | -0.533 |
| Stevens | 1988 | -0.658 |
| Stevens | 1989 | -1.074 |
| Stevens | 1990 | -1.771 |
| Stevens | 1991 | -2.159 |
| Stevens | 1992 | -2.337 |
| Stevens | 1993 | -2.549 |
| Stevens | 1994 | -2.907 |
| Stevens | 1995 | -3.133 |
| Stevens | 1996 | -3.233 |
| Stevens | 1997 | -3.192 |
| Stevens | 1998 | -3.147 |
| Stevens | 1999 | -3.050 |
| Stevens | 2000 | -2.895 |
| Stevens | 2001 | -2.805 |
| Stevens | 2002 | -2.681 |
| Stevens | 2003 | -2.641 |
| Stevens | 2004 | -2.570 |
| Stevens | 2005 | -2.469 |
| Stevens | 2006 | -2.491 |
| Stevens | 2007 | -2.401 |
| Stevens | 2008 | -2.611 |
| Stevens | 2009 | -2.626 |
| Court median | 1975 | 0.537 |
| Court median | 1976 | 0.492 |
| Court median | 1977 | 0.272 |
| Court median | 1978 | 0.108 |
| Court median | 1979 | 0.146 |
| Court median | 1980 | 0.068 |
| Court median | 1981 | 0.017 |
| Court median | 1982 | 0.467 |
| Court median | 1983 | 0.751 |
| Court median | 1984 | 0.676 |
| Court median | 1985 | 0.792 |
| Court median | 1986 | 0.755 |
| Court median | 1987 | 0.955 |
| Court median | 1988 | 1.030 |
| Court median | 1989 | 0.795 |
| Court median | 1990 | 0.963 |
| Court median | 1991 | 0.576 |
| Court median | 1992 | 0.704 |
| Court median | 1993 | 0.742 |
| Court median | 1994 | 0.663 |
| Court median | 1995 | 0.573 |
| Court median | 1996 | 0.692 |
| Court median | 1997 | 0.636 |
| Court median | 1998 | 0.737 |
| Court median | 1999 | 0.724 |
| Court median | 2000 | 0.480 |
| Court median | 2001 | 0.302 |
| Court median | 2002 | 0.220 |
| Court median | 2003 | 0.169 |
| Court median | 2004 | 0.076 |
| Court median | 2005 | 0.189 |
| Court median | 2006 | 0.413 |
| Court median | 2007 | 0.317 |
| Court median | 2008 | 0.565 |
| Court median | 2009 | 0.572 |
Where Stevens 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Amendment | 0.675 | 4020 | |
| Criminal Procedure | 0.655 | 4020 | |
| Due Process | 0.643 | 4020 | |
| Civil Rights | 0.641 | 4020 | |
| Unions | 0.630 | 4020 | |
| Federal Taxation | 0.596 | 4020 | |
| Federalism | 0.564 | 4020 | |
| Economic Activity | 0.560 | 4020 | |
| Judicial Power | 0.477 | 4020 |
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