The Behavior of Federal Judges. A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Rational Choice

By Heiko Richter. 2014

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics

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Citations in the corpus

• Judicial Politics and Sentencing Decisions (2019, background): “2See, e.g., Sunstein et al. (2006) and Epstein et al. (2013) for overviews of the literature, and a literature examining judge characteristics at the appellate level (e.g., Cox and Miles 2008, Chew and Kelley 2008) and trial court level (e.g., Schanzenbach and Tiller 2007, Tiede et al. 2010,…”
• Salience Theory of Judicial Decisions (2015, unknown): “One important strand of legal realism is rule skepticism, which emphasizes the discretion exercised by appellate courts in applying law to an established set of facts (Posner 2008; Epstein, Landes, and Posner 2013).”