sc9497 {pscl} | R Documentation

## votes from the United States Supreme Court, from 1994-1997

### Description

This data set provides information on the United States Supreme Court from 1994-1997. Votes included are non-unanimous.

### Usage

    data(sc9497)

### Format

A list containing the elements:

votes

  a matrix of the votes, 0=Nay, 1=Yea, `NA`=Abstained or missing data. The matrix columns are labeled with `vote.names` and the rows are labeled with `legis.names`.

legis.names

  a vector of the names of the nine Justices sitting on the court at this time.

party

  NULL; exists for consistency with House and Senate data sets.

state

  NULL; exists for consistency with House and Senate data sets.

district

  NULL; exists for consistency with House data sets.

id

  NULL; exists for consistency with House and Senate data sets.

vote.names

  a vector of strings numbering the cases simply to distinguish them from one another.

desc

  a description of the data set.

### Source

Harold J. Spaeth (1999). United States Supreme Court Judicial Database, 1953-1997 Terms. Ninth edition. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Ann Arbor, Michigan. http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/

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