How Elite is the Supreme Court?
“After struggling most weeks trying to work with my dataset, I realized from our classes that I was looking at my dataset the wrong way. So, I decided to flip the format. I am now looking at just how elite the Supreme Court has been over its history. I do this by grouping Justices to the school they attended. It was such a relief to be able to run the different network commands and actually get graphs or data. I will save working on formating the graphs for the future when my brain recovers.
The new version of my dataset has 104 vertices. It is a directed network. It is not bipartite and there are a total of 76 edges.”
Network attributes:
vertices = 104
directed = TRUE
hyper = FALSE
loops = FALSE
multiple = FALSE
bipartite = FALSE
total edges= 76
missing edges= 0
non-missing edges= 76
Vertex attribute names:
vertex.names
No edge attributes
Length Class Mode
cluster 7 hclust list
metric 1 -none- character
equiv.fun 1 -none- character
cluster.method 1 -none- character
glabels 104 -none- character
plabels 104 -none- character
Network Blockmodel:
Block membership:
Albany Apprenticeship
1 2
Berkeley Bowdoin College
1 1
Centre Colllege Cincinnati
1 1
Colorado Columbia
1 3
Cumberland School of Law Emory University
1 1
Harvard Howard
4 1
Indiana Kansas City
1 1
Michigan New York Law School
1 1
Northwestern Notre Dame
1 1
Penn School
1 1
St. Paul College of Law Stanford
1 1
Texas Transylvania University
1 1
Tulane Virginia
1 1
Washington and Lee Yale
1 5
David Brewer Robert H. Jackson
1 1
Rufus W. Peckham James F. Byrnes
1 1
Samuel Freeman Miller Stanley Matthews
1 1
John Clarke Mahon Pitney
1 1
Stephen Field George Shiras Jr.
1 1
Wiliam R. Day Pierce Butler
1 1
Joseph Bradley Earl Warren
1 1
Melville Fuller Fred M. Vinson
1 1
William Howard Taft Willis Van Devanter
1 1
Wiley Rutledge Charles Evans Hughes
1 1
Harland F. Stone Samuel Blatchford
1 1
Benjamin N. Cardozo William O. Douglas
1 1
Stanley Reed Ruth Bader Ginsburg
1 1
Joseph McKenna Howell Edmunds Jackson
1 1
Horace Lurton Lucius Lamar
1 1
John Roberts Anthony Kennedy
1 1
Horace Gray Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
1 1
Felix Frankfurter Harry Blackmun
1 1
Stephen Breyer William Brennan Jr.
1 1
David Souter William Moody
1 1
Louis Brandeis Elena Kagan
1 1
Edward Sanford Harold Burton
1 1
Antonin Scalia Neil Gorsuch
1 1
Thurgood Marhsall Sherman Minton
1 1
Charles Whittaker George Sutherland
1 1
Frank Murphy John Marshall Harlan II
1 1
Arthur Goldberg John Paul Stevens
1 1
Amy Coney Barrett Owen Roberts
1 1
Justice Warren E. Burger
1 1
William Rehnquist Sandra Day O'Connor
1 1
Tom Clark John Marshall Harlan
1 1
Edward Douglas White James McReynolds
1 1
Lewis F. Powell Jr. Joseph Lamar
1 1
Morrison White Brett Kavanaugh
1 1
Abe Fortas William Burnham Woods
1 1
Sonia Sotomayor Henry Billings Brown
1 1
Byron White Potter Stewart
1 1
Samuel Alito Clarence Thomas
1 1
Reduced form blockmodel:
Albany Apprenticeship Berkeley Bowdoin College Centre Colllege Cincinnati Colorado Columbia Cumberland School of Law Emory University Harvard Howard Indiana Kansas City Michigan New York Law School Northwestern Notre Dame Penn School St. Paul College of Law Stanford Texas Transylvania University Tulane Virginia Washington and Lee Yale David Brewer Robert H. Jackson Rufus W. Peckham James F. Byrnes Samuel Freeman Miller Stanley Matthews John Clarke Mahon Pitney Stephen Field George Shiras Jr. Wiliam R. Day Pierce Butler Joseph Bradley Earl Warren Melville Fuller Fred M. Vinson William Howard Taft Willis Van Devanter Wiley Rutledge Charles Evans Hughes Harland F. Stone Samuel Blatchford Benjamin N. Cardozo William O. Douglas Stanley Reed Ruth Bader Ginsburg Joseph McKenna Howell Edmunds Jackson Horace Lurton Lucius Lamar John Roberts Anthony Kennedy Horace Gray Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Felix Frankfurter Harry Blackmun Stephen Breyer William Brennan Jr. David Souter William Moody Louis Brandeis Elena Kagan Edward Sanford Harold Burton Antonin Scalia Neil Gorsuch Thurgood Marhsall Sherman Minton Charles Whittaker George Sutherland Frank Murphy John Marshall Harlan II Arthur Goldberg John Paul Stevens Amy Coney Barrett Owen Roberts Justice Warren E. Burger William Rehnquist Sandra Day O'Connor Tom Clark John Marshall Harlan Edward Douglas White James McReynolds Lewis F. Powell Jr. Joseph Lamar Morrison White Brett Kavanaugh Abe Fortas William Burnham Woods Sonia Sotomayor Henry Billings Brown Byron White Potter Stewart Samuel Alito Clarence Thomas
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For attribution, please cite this work as
Burnworth (2022, March 12). Data Analytics and Computational Social Science: How Elite is the Supreme Court?. Retrieved from https://github.com/DACSS/dacss_course_website/posts/httpsrpubscomburnworthj876640/
BibTeX citation
@misc{burnworth2022how,
author = {Burnworth, Justin},
title = {Data Analytics and Computational Social Science: How Elite is the Supreme Court?},
url = {https://github.com/DACSS/dacss_course_website/posts/httpsrpubscomburnworthj876640/},
year = {2022}
}
