{"@type": "dcat:Dataset", "accessLevel": "public", "bureauCode": ["011:21"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Ask BJS Bureau of Justice Statistics (USDOJ)", "hasEmail": "mailto:askbjs@usdoj.gov"}, "dataQuality": false, "description": "\r\nInvestigator(s): Harold J. Spaeth, James L. Gibson, Michigan State University\r\nThis data collection encompasses all aspects of United \r\nStates Supreme Court decision-making from the beginning of the Warren Court \r\nin 1953 up to the completion of the 1995 term of the Rehnquist Court on July \r\n1, 1996, including any decisions made afterward but before the start of the \r\n1996 term on October 7, 1996. In this collection, distinct aspects of the \r\ncourt's decisions are covered by six types of variables: (1) identification \r\nvariables including case citation, docket number, unit of analysis, and number\r\nof records per unit of analysis, (2) background variables offering information\r\non origin of case, source of case, reason for granting cert, parties to the \r\ncase, direction of the lower court's decision, and manner in which the Court \r\ntakes jurisdiction, (3) chronological variables covering date of term of \r\ncourt, chief justice, and natural court, (4) substantive variables including \r\nmultiple legal provisions, authority for decision, issue, issue areas, and \r\ndirection of decision, (5) outcome variables supplying information on form of \r\ndecision, disposition of case, winning party, declaration of \r\nunconstitutionality, and multiple memorandum decisions, and (6) voting and \r\nopinion variables pertaining to the vote in the case and to the direction of \r\nthe individual justices' votes.Years Produced: Annually\r\n", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/ICPSR/series/86", "title": "United States Supreme Court Judicial Database Terms Series"}], "identifier": "2428", "issued": "1990-12-04T00:00:00", "keyword": ["Supreme Court decisions", "Supreme Court justices", "United States Supreme Court", "case processing", "court cases", "disposition (legal)", "judicial decisions", "judicial review", "legal history", "twentieth century"], "language": ["eng"], "license": "http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/", "modified": "2006-03-30T00:00:00", "programCode": ["011:061"], "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "Bureau of Justice Statistics", "subOrganizationOf": {"acronym": "OJP", "id": 22, "name": "Office of Justice Programs", "parentOrganization": {"acronym": "DOJ", "id": 10, "name": "Department of Justice"}, "parentOrganizationID": 10}}, "title": "United States Supreme Court Judicial Database Terms Series"}