Classification of majority opinions and headnotes written by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

<p>This is data to accompany an article by Linda L. Berger and Eric C. Nystrom, &quot;A Rhetorical-Computational Analysis of Justice Antonin Scalia&#39;s &#39;Remarkable Influence&#39;: The Unexpected Importance of Deceptively Unanimous and Contested Majority Opinions,&quot; <em>Journal of Appellate Practice and Process</em> 20, no. 2 (2020).</p> <p>In &quot;scalia-HN-with-ruletype.tsv,&quot; Berger classified each headnote from a Scalia-authored majority opinion as one of the following rhetorical types: argument, scalia rule, or preexisting rule. (See article for further explanation of these categories.) Organized by SCDB ID and headnote number.</p> <p>In &quot;unanimity.tsv,&quot; Berger addressed each case with a Scalia-authored majority opinion, assessing the degree of unanimity, which may or may not be the same as that implied by the for/against vote in the case. Fields include case SCDB ID, majority-minority vote, and degree of unanimity.</p> <p>Both data files are in Tab-separated format. For further information, please contact the authors.</p>