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Title: Distinguishing Judges: An Empirical Ranking of Judicial Quality in the United States Courts of Appeals.
Author : Missouri Law Review
Release Date : January 22, 2011
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 290 KB

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I. INTRODUCTION How can one evaluate the performance of federal appellate judges? This question implicitly arises every time a federal appellate judge is nominated to the United States Supreme Court. And because the federal appellate bench is the most common source of Supreme Court nominees in recent decades, (1) this question is relevant to most modern Supreme Court nominations. But the question of judicial performance is at least as important outside the context of Supreme Court appointments, as the courts of appeals are the final arbiters of most disputes in the federal courts. Thus, the outcome of virtually every litigated matter in the federal system hinges on the quality of federal appellate decision-making, and therefore the performance of these judges implicates fundamental questions about the rule of law.