Charles E. Whittaker
Charles E. Whittaker is in the ideology file. Vote totals for the full service are not in this fixture.
Ideology over time
Martin-Quinn score by term against the Court median. Negative is liberal. Scores are relative to the docket. Intervals are not in this file. A single term is noisy.
Table
| series | term | martin_quinn |
|---|---|---|
| Whittaker | 1956 | 1.044 |
| Whittaker | 1957 | 1.075 |
| Whittaker | 1958 | 1.375 |
| Whittaker | 1959 | 1.486 |
| Whittaker | 1960 | 1.309 |
| Whittaker | 1961 | 1.242 |
| Court median | 1956 | 0.260 |
| Court median | 1957 | 0.610 |
| Court median | 1958 | 0.544 |
| Court median | 1959 | 0.434 |
| Court median | 1960 | 0.535 |
| Court median | 1961 | 0.178 |
Where Whittaker came down, by issue
Share of votes coded liberal. The first-run issue table suppresses cells under 25 votes and does not publish a separate Court rate for this justice. Direction before 1946 is excluded.
Table
| issue | justice_liberal | court_liberal | n |
|---|---|---|---|
| Federal Taxation | 0.610 | 640 | |
| Federalism | 0.556 | 640 | |
| Civil Rights | 0.551 | 640 | |
| Criminal Procedure | 0.442 | 640 | |
| Unions | 0.415 | 640 | |
| First Amendment | 0.383 | 640 | |
| Economic Activity | 0.373 | 640 | |
| Judicial Power | 0.341 | 640 |
At oral argument stage 3
Words per argument, questions to each side, interruptions given and received, and whether the side questioned more went on to lose. Formats are never pooled.
Source: Oyez speaker turns
Writing style stage 2
Words per opinion, reading grade, citations per thousand words, and the share of case versus statutory citations.
Source: CourtListener opinion text
Reasoning profile stage 6
Which reasoning techniques appear, against the Court average over the same terms. Validation accuracy prints beside the chart.
Source: Taxonomy classifier over opinion text
Before the Court stage 8
Pre-appointment opinions, reversal record and panel agreement.
Source: CourtListener, labeled by coverage