scotus.1937.2021 {pumBayes} | R Documentation |
U.S. Supreme Court Voting Data (1937-2021)
Description
This dataset contains voting records from the U.S. Supreme Court between 1937 and 2021. Loading 'data(scotus.1937.2021)' will load the following two independent objects into the environment:
Usage
data(scotus.1937.2021)
Format
The dataset consists of the following two objects:
- mqVotes
A '48 × 6108' matrix, where each row represents a judge and each column represents a case. Entries are:
'1' ('TRUE'): The judge voted to reverse the lower court decision.
'0' ('FALSE'): The judge voted to uphold the lower court decision.
'NA': The judge did not vote on the case.
- mqTime
A numeric vector of length '6108', indicating the time period associated with each case.
Source
The data were obtained from the Martin-Quinn Scores Database, maintained by Washington University in St. Louis. The dataset can be accessed and downloaded from http://mqscores.wustl.edu/replication.php.
Examples
data(scotus.1937.2021)
str(mqVotes)
str(mqTime)