https://github.com/newsdev/nyt-clerk
A set of Python modules for downloading, parsing, and outputting data related to the Supreme Court.
https://github.com/newsdev/nyt-clerk
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A set of Python modules for downloading, parsing, and outputting data related to the Supreme Court.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/newsdev/nyt-clerk
- Owner: newsdev
- License: other
- Archived: true
- Created: 2015-08-25T14:59:28.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2019-06-20T14:17:33.000Z (about 7 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-10-27T03:09:06.376Z (8 months ago)
- Topics: scotus-data
- Language: Python
- Size: 132 KB
- Stars: 40
- Watchers: 21
- Forks: 4
- Open Issues: 14
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.rst
- License: LICENSE
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README
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Usage
=====
::
pip install -e git@github.com:newsdev/nyt-clerk.git#egg=clerk
clerk justices
Data
====
- ``clerk cases``: SCDB fields about decided merits
cases, excluding the justice and vote details.
- ``clerk votes``: SCDB fields about a single justice's
vote in a single case.
- ``clerk courts``: Data about the ideology for
each Court term.
- ``clerk justices``: Data about the ideology and
qualifications for each Justice before they were confirmed.
- ``clerk terms``: Data about the ideology of
each individual Justice during each Court term.
SCDB Data
---------
SCDB data includes cases from 1791 term to the 2015 term. Many fields
need to be mapped to their full values. The SCDB `maintains an online
codebook `__ with these maps.
Ideology / Qualification Scores
-------------------------------
Martin-Quinn scores measure the relative ideology of a Justice or a
Supreme Court term to the median Justice. Andrew Martin and Kevin Quinn
`wrote an excellent
paper `__ about the method.
Segal-Cover scores measure the ideology and qualification of an
individual Justice *before* their appointment to the Court. Jeffrey
Segal `wrote a
summary `__
and shows the raw data as a table (warning: PDF).