Ultimately, most judges are looking to provide clear answers and characterizations or clarifications of law. Judicial opinions matter not only on appeal but to judges’ peers and legal practitioners.
If we acknowledge that judges' writings matter to the authoring judges themselves, we may at very least assume that Supreme Court Justices care about their written opinion writing quality to the extent that they want to best final output as possible.
A simple premise is that longer sentences are harder to follow. Readability measures were developed to provide advanced metrics of the ease of reading.
This article aims to put Supreme Court opinions from last term under a microscope, examining opinion writing quality along with some of their content, focusing solely on majority opinions.
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