"Our Most Sacred Legal Commitments": A Digital Exploration of the U.S. Supreme Court Defining Who We Are and How They Should Opine

Authors

Eric C. Nystrom
David S. Tanenhaus, University of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School of Law

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2021

Abstract

This Article focuses on uncovering the multiple meanings of the word "our" in the published opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court from Chisholm to modern times. To do so, we use a digital legal history approach, combining robust court data, text mining techniques, and expert word classification, using a set of custom open-source tools and open data.

Publication Citation

89 U. Cin. L. Rev. 832 (2021).

Recommended Citation

Nystrom, Eric C. and Tanenhaus, David S., ""Our Most Sacred Legal Commitments": A Digital Exploration of the U.S. Supreme Court Defining Who We Are and How They Should Opine" (2021). Scholarly Works. 1338.
https://scholars.law.unlv.edu/facpub/1338