Hugo L. Black
Hugo L. Black 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Black | 1955 | -1.929 |
| Black | 1956 | -2.112 |
| Black | 1957 | -2.170 |
| Black | 1958 | -2.057 |
| Black | 1959 | -2.019 |
| Black | 1960 | -1.892 |
| Black | 1961 | -1.791 |
| Black | 1962 | -1.702 |
| Black | 1963 | -1.470 |
| Black | 1964 | -0.979 |
| Black | 1965 | -0.608 |
| Black | 1966 | -0.315 |
| Black | 1967 | -0.105 |
| Black | 1968 | -0.011 |
| Black | 1969 | 0.077 |
| Black | 1970 | 0.056 |
| Court median | 1955 | 0.074 |
| 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 |
| Court median | 1962 | -0.814 |
| Court median | 1963 | -0.877 |
| Court median | 1964 | -0.607 |
| Court median | 1965 | -0.608 |
| Court median | 1966 | -0.315 |
| Court median | 1967 | -0.961 |
| Court median | 1968 | -0.971 |
| Court median | 1969 | 0.183 |
| Court median | 1970 | 0.590 |
Where Black 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Amendment | 0.848 | 3148 | |
| Economic Activity | 0.841 | 3148 | |
| Federal Taxation | 0.825 | 3148 | |
| Due Process | 0.744 | 3148 | |
| Civil Rights | 0.738 | 3148 | |
| Unions | 0.736 | 3148 | |
| Federalism | 0.704 | 3148 | |
| Criminal Procedure | 0.697 | 3148 | |
| Judicial Power | 0.487 | 3148 |
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