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97 Judicature 228 (2013-2014)
Me Too: An Investigation of Repetition in U.S. Supreme Court Amicus Curiae Briefs

handle is hein.journals/judica97 and id is 228 raw text is: 1 ME TO ? An Investigation of Repetition in U.S. Supreme Court Amicus Curiae Briefs by PAUL M. COLLINS, JR., PAMELA C. CORLEY, and JESSE HAMNER A voluminous literature has demon- strated that amicus curiae (friend of the court) briefs influence judi- cial behavior. At the U.S. Supreme Court, amicus briefs affect certiorari decisions;' litigation success;2 the ideological direction of the Court's decisions and justices' votes;3 the fre- quency of separate opinion writing;' and the content of the Court's opin- A previous version of this article was pre- sented at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. We extend our thanks to participants at that panel, the anonymous reviewers, the editor, and Justin Wedeking for their insightful comments on this research. We are also grateful to Tom Miles for his able research assistance. 1. Gregory A. Caldeira & John R. Wright, Orga- nized Interests and Agenda Setting in the U.S. Supreme Court, 82 AM. POL. SCI. REv. 1109 (1988). 2. Paul M. Collins, Jr., Friends ofthe Court: Exam- ining the Influence ofAmicus Curiae Participation in U.S. Supreme Court Litigation, 38 L. & Soc. REv. 807 (2004); Joseph D. Kearney & Thomas W. Merrill, The Influence ofAmicus Curiae Briefs on the Supreme Court, 148 U. OF PA. L. REv. 743 (2000). 3. Paul M. Collins, Jr., Lobbyists before the U.S. Supreme Court: Investigating the Influence of Amicus Curiae Briefs, 60 POL. REs. Q. 55 (2007); PAUL M. COLLINS, JR., FRIENDS OF THE SUPREME COURT: INTEREST GROUPS AND JUDICIAL DECI- SION MAKING (2008). 4. Paul M. Collins, Jr., Amici Curiae and Dissen- sus on the U.S. Supreme Court, 5 J. OF EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUD. 143 (2008).

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