Monthly Archives: November 2014

In celebration of Crawford v. Washington‘s 10-year anniversary, we’re looking at Supreme Court Confrontation Clause doctrine. In my last post, I generated a 2-degree citation network connecting the Williams v. Illinois (2012) back to Crawford. The 2-degree algorithm produced a network that included seven … Continue reading →

Ten years ago, the Supreme Court revolutionized Confrontation Clause jurisprudence in Crawford v. Washington. To celebrate Crawford‘s 10-year birthday, the Michigan Law Review has just published an online retrospective featuring fantastic debate and analysis about the doctrine’s path over the past decade.  As I … Continue reading →

Two weeks ago, I launched this blog with what I called an “immigration problem.” The problem involved transforming an automatically generated network of Supreme Court immigration cases into a more accurate and useful map of immigration doctrine. In subsequent posts, I chipped away … Continue reading →

Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued a summary reversal of the Fifth Circuit in Johnson v. City of Shelby. The short per curiam opinion represents the latest chapter in the Court’s recently-controversial doctrine interpreting the requirements for federal pleadings under FRCP 8(a)(2). Working … Continue reading →

And then there was dissent! Over the past few posts (Part I here, Part II here), I’ve been modifying an automatically generated citation network map focused on immigration cases. The automatic network connected 2010’s Padilla v. Kentucky all the way … Continue reading →

This week I’ve been working on improving a map of immigration doctrine. I created the original map by combining 3-degree citation networks connecting Padilla v. Kentucky (2010) to Fong Yue Ting (1893) and the Chinese Exclusion Cases (1889). In my … Continue reading →

In my last post, I vowed to upgrade a map plotting immigration doctrine to include pre-1946 vote counts and decision directions. The reason the map did not already include this information is that the Spaeth (Supreme Court Database) dataset does not … Continue reading →

In the 10/20 Map of the Week, I quickly rendered an immigration network. To make it, I combined two 3-degree citation network. Both networks started with 2010’s Padilla v. Kentucky as a child. Padilla’s two network parents were the Chinese Exclusion … Continue reading →