Warren E. Burger
Warren E. Burger 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Burger | 1969 | 2.015 |
| Burger | 1970 | 2.255 |
| Burger | 1971 | 2.504 |
| Burger | 1972 | 2.323 |
| Burger | 1973 | 2.273 |
| Burger | 1974 | 2.188 |
| Burger | 1975 | 2.038 |
| Burger | 1976 | 1.924 |
| Burger | 1977 | 1.597 |
| Burger | 1978 | 1.453 |
| Burger | 1979 | 1.213 |
| Burger | 1980 | 1.388 |
| Burger | 1981 | 1.499 |
| Burger | 1982 | 1.354 |
| Burger | 1983 | 1.539 |
| Burger | 1984 | 1.864 |
| Burger | 1985 | 2.004 |
| Court median | 1969 | 0.183 |
| Court median | 1970 | 0.590 |
| Court median | 1971 | 0.777 |
| Court median | 1972 | 1.055 |
| Court median | 1973 | 0.610 |
| Court median | 1974 | 0.618 |
| 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 |
Where Burger 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 | 0.733 | 2693 | |
| Federalism | 0.638 | 2693 | |
| Economic Activity | 0.454 | 2693 | |
| Unions | 0.426 | 2693 | |
| Due Process | 0.385 | 2693 | |
| Civil Rights | 0.384 | 2693 | |
| First Amendment | 0.302 | 2693 | |
| Judicial Power | 0.226 | 2693 | |
| Criminal Procedure | 0.198 | 2693 |
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