You ready?

I was born ready. Welcome to Advisory opinions. I'm Sarah Isger. That's David French and as promised David. We have a special

guest for this episode. Adam Feldman of Empirical Scotis from Optimized Legal Consulting is here to

join us

and break down some of the trends and statistics

and all of that.

Maybe throw some shade on the 333 court,

which I'm super pumped about.

And where we'll start Adam welcome to the pod.

Oh thanks so much for having me.

But you just published which justice writes the most important opinions which sounds like a really impossible task to put one's finger on.

But you did.

You have fingers all over it.

I appreciate it.

Yeah, so it is, in sense impossible to do because everybody's definition of importance is going to be a little bit different.

So I have to give the caveat that I'm trying to capture it with a bunch of different

variables and if I can and this is kind of a general thing that I'm looking for in

my studies if I can find a bunch of different measures converging at the same thing, that

tends to show that I'm looking in the right direction.

And so if I can come up with a bunch of different ways to think of importance and I did in this article and they all kind of showed the same thing which was that Chief Justice Roberts writes the most important opinions,

and that kind of passes the smell test,

is something that in observing some of the opinions

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