{"id":152,"date":"2014-12-05T16:25:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T16:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cstarger\/?p=152"},"modified":"2022-06-11T20:15:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T20:15:16","slug":"crawford-degree-of-dissent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cstarger\/2014\/12\/05\/crawford-degree-of-dissent\/","title":{"rendered":"Crawford Degree of Dissent"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a brief “True Threats” interruption<\/a>, we return today to Confrontation Clause doctrine since Crawford v. Washington<\/em>. In my last post in this series<\/a>, I argued that 2008’s Indiana v. Edwards<\/em> does not really belong in the Crawford<\/em> network (even though it was picked up by the citation algorithm) and that 2007’s Whorton v. Bockting<\/em>\u00a0is similarly unimportant to current Crawford<\/em> doctrine since Whorton<\/em>\u00a0concerned only the narrow issue of retroactivity. Let’s look now at\u00a0an edited version of the last Crawford<\/em> map (click for full-size version with links to opinions):<\/p>\n

\"10_Williams_Crawford_basic_Spaeth\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This map employs\u00a0a Spaeth visualization schema — the Y-axis represents\u00a0Supreme Court Database\u00a0codes\u00a0on majority outcome vote<\/a> and decision direction<\/a>. (For more on Spaeth visualization, see this post<\/a> and\/or this video<\/a>). The scheme displays cases with a high degree of outcome consensus in the middle of the map \u00a0— 9-0 judgments like Crawford<\/em> and Davis<\/em>. Conversely, cases with less consensus are displayed at the top (Spaeth-coded liberal) and bottom (Spaeth-coded conservative) of the map.<\/p>\n

After Crawford<\/em> and Davis<\/em>, we see that decisions in this line have invariably provoked dissent. How much dissent? Let the\u00a0“Degree of Dissent” of a case be #Number_of_dissents * 0.25. This means a case with no dissents has a degree of dissent of 0. A case with four dissents — the most possible in SCOTUS — has a degree of dissent of 1. The Crawford<\/em> network’s average degree of dissent is 0.61, somewhere between a 7-2 (0.5) and a 6-3 (0.75). After Davis<\/em>, however, the degree of dissent is 0.85 — between a 6-3 and a 5-4.<\/p>\n

This map thus shows that the early consensus around Crawford<\/em> has fallen apart. Understanding just how this fragmentation occurred requires looking closer at the competing lines of doctrinal interpretation. That requires yet another kind of map. Coming soon…<\/p>\n

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