Scientific Method and the Judicial Process

1 Brecht Arnold , Politcal Theory (1959), p. 114.

2 See Hart Henry M. Jr. McNaughton J. T. , “Evidence and Inference in the Law,” Daedalus, 87 (Fall 1958), pp. 40–64.

3“Transcendental Nonsense and the Functional Approach,” in S. Sidney Ulmer, Introductory Readings in Political Behavior (1961), pp. 324–31.

4For an excellent discussion of inference theory in social research, see Paul Lazarsfeld, “Evidence and Inference in Social Research,” Daedalus, 87 (Fall 1958), pp. 99–130.

5 Sidney Ulmer S. , “An Empirical Analysis of Selected Aspects of Lawmaking in the United States Supreme Court,” J. of Public Law, 8 (1959), pp. 414–36.

6 “The Retirement of Federal Judges,” Harvard Law R., 51 (Jan. 1938), pp. 397–443.

7 Cf. Danelski David J. , “The Influence of the Chief Justice in the Decision Process of the Supreme Court,” excerpted in Walter F. Murphy and C. Herman Pritchett, Courts, Judges and Politics (1961), pp. 497–508.

8 Brief For the United States as Amicus Curiae on Reargument, pp. 42–43.

9 Sidney Ulmer S. , “Quantitative Analysis of Judicial Processes: Some Practical and Theoretical Applications,” Law and Contemporary Problems (Winter 1963), pp. 164–84.