Download This PaperAttorney Voice and the U.S. Supreme Court
Law as Data, Santa Fe Institute Press, ed. M. Livermore and D. Rockmore, 2019(13)
18 Pages Posted: 17 Dec 2018 Last revised: 20 Apr 2020
Date Written: January 6, 2019
Abstract
Using data from 1946–2014, we show that audio features of lawyers’ introductory statements improve the performance of the best prediction models of Supreme Court outcomes. We infer voice attributes using a 15-year sample of human-labeled Supreme Court advocate voices. Audio features improved prediction of case outcomes by 1.1 percentage points. Lawyer traits receive approximately half the weight of the most important feature from the models without audio features.
Keywords: Supreme Court, voices
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Chen, Daniel L. and Halberstam, Yosh and Kumar, Manoj and Yu, Alan, Attorney Voice and the U.S. Supreme Court (January 6, 2019). Law as Data, Santa Fe Institute Press, ed. M. Livermore and D. Rockmore, 2019(13), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3241596
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