Author Archives: Colin Starger
Immigration Solution (Part III): Vote View and Dissents
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
Immigration Solution (Part II): Identifying Opinion Authors
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
Immigration Solution (Part I): Outcome Votes + Direction
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
Immigration Problem
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