Attorney Voice and the U.S. Supreme Court

Résumé

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.

Remplace

Daniel L. Chen, « Attorney Voice and the U.S. Supreme Court », TSE Working Paper, n° 18-978, décembre 2018.

Référence

Daniel L. Chen, Yosh Halberstam, Manoj Kumar et Alan Yu, « Attorney Voice and the U.S. Supreme Court », 2019dans Law as Data: Computation, Text, and the Future of Legal Analysis, sous la direction de Michael Livermore et Daniel Rockmore, Santa Fe Institute Press, 2019.