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D-Index
21
Citations
1438
World Ranking
1948
National Ranking
970

Best Publications

  • The Solicitor General and the United States Supreme Court: Executive Branch Influence and Judicial Decisions

    Ryan C. Black;Ryan J. Owens

  • US Supreme Court Opinions and their Audiences

    Ryan C. Black;Ryan J. Owens;Justin Wedeking;Patrick C. Wohlfarth

  • Courting the President: How Circuit Court Judges Alter Their Behavior for Promotion to the Supreme Court

    Ryan C. Black;Ryan J. Owens

  • Emotions, Oral Arguments, and Supreme Court Decision Making

    Ryan C. Black;Sarah A. Treul;Timothy R. Johnson;Jerry Goldman

  • The Solicitor General and the United States Supreme Court

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  • Adding Recess Appointments to the President's “Tool Chest” of Unilateral Powers

    Ryan C. Black;Anthony J. Madonna;Ryan J. Owens;Michael S. Lynch

  • Agenda Setting in the Supreme Court: The Collision of Policy and Jurisprudence

    Ryan C. Black;Ryan J. Owens

  • Solicitor General Influence and Agenda Setting on the U.S. Supreme Court

    Ryan C. Black;Ryan J. Owens

  • The Citation and Depreciation of U.S. Supreme Court Precedent

    Ryan C. Black;James F. Spriggs

  • The Role of Emotional Language in Briefs Before the U.S. Supreme Court

    Ryan C. Black;Matthew E.K. Hall;Ryan J. Owens;Eve Ringsmuth

  • Consider the Source (and the Message): Supreme Court Justices and Strategic Audits of Lower Court Decisions

    Ryan C. Black;Ryan J. Owens

  • Televised Oral Arguments and Judicial Legitimacy: An Initial Assessment

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  • The Influence of Public Sentiment on Supreme Court Opinion Clarity

    Ryan C. Black;Ryan J. Owens;Justin Wedeking;Patrick C. Wohlfarth

  • Toward an Actor-Based Measure of Supreme Court Case Salience: Information-Seeking and Engagement during Oral Arguments

    Ryan C. Black;Maron W. Sorenson;Timothy R. Johnson

  • Recusals and the "Problem" of an Equally Divided Supreme Court

    Ryan Black;Lee Epstein

  • The Role of Emotional Language in Briefs before the US Supreme Court

    Ryan C. Black;Matthew E. K. Hall;Ryan J. Owens;Eve M. Ringsmuth

  • Bargaining and Legal Development in the United States Courts of Appeals

    Ryan C. Black;Ryan J. Owens

  • The Role of Law Clerks in the U.S. Supreme Court's Agenda-Setting Process

    Ryan C. Black;Christina L. Boyd

  • A Well-Traveled Lot: A Research Note on Judicial Travel by U.S. Supreme Court Justices

    Ryan C. Black;Ryan J. Owens;Miles T. Armaly

  • An Empirical Analysis of the Length of U.S. Supreme Court Opinions

    Ryan C. Black;James F. Spriggs

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