Tom C. Clark
Tom C. Clark 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Clark | 1955 | 0.074 |
| Clark | 1956 | 0.260 |
| Clark | 1957 | 0.610 |
| Clark | 1958 | 0.544 |
| Clark | 1959 | 0.434 |
| Clark | 1960 | 0.784 |
| Clark | 1961 | 0.407 |
| Clark | 1962 | 0.203 |
| Clark | 1963 | 0.176 |
| Clark | 1964 | 0.007 |
| Clark | 1965 | -0.067 |
| Clark | 1966 | 0.065 |
| 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 |
Where Clark 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 | 0.744 | 2132 | |
| Due Process | 0.727 | 2132 | |
| Economic Activity | 0.718 | 2132 | |
| Unions | 0.636 | 2132 | |
| Civil Rights | 0.584 | 2132 | |
| Federalism | 0.576 | 2132 | |
| First Amendment | 0.372 | 2132 | |
| Criminal Procedure | 0.369 | 2132 | |
| Judicial Power | 0.361 | 2132 |
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