Codebook and Documentation Data used in analyses in Spill and Ray SPQ paper Courts of Appeal Case Data The dataset agcases.sav is an SPSS file containing information about the cases where a state appeared before the US Courts of Appeal. These data are built around a core set of data on court cases extracted from the Court of Appeals database developed by Songer. This codebook documents only those new variables added to that dataset, as well as other publicly available data merged with the Court of Appeals data. For a description of the variables in the original Court of Appeals database, consult the corresponding codebook available from the Program for Law and Judicial Politics of the Michigan State University Department of Political Science.(http://www.polisci.msu.edu/pljp/ctadata.html) Variables added to Courts of Appeals Dataset State: Alphabetic state identifier. USPS Abbreviations are used. State: Abbreviation: ALABAMA AL ALASKA AK ARIZONA AZ ARKANSAS AR CALIFORNIA CA COLORADO CO CONNECTICUT CT DELAWARE DE FLORIDA FL GEORGIA GA HAWAII HI IDAHO ID ILLINOIS IL INDIANA IN IOWA IA KANSAS KS KENTUCKY KY LOUISIANA LA MAINE ME MARYLAND MD MASSACHUSETTS MA MICHIGAN MI MINNESOTA MN MISSISSIPPI MS MISSOURI MO MONTANA MT NEBRASKA NE NEVADA NV NEW HAMPSHIRE NH NEW JERSEY NJ NEW MEXICO NM NEW YORK NY NORTH CAROLINA NC NORTH DAKOTA ND OHIO OH OKLAHOMA OK OREGON OR PENNSYLVANIA PA PUERTO RICO PR RHODE ISLAND RI SOUTH CAROLINA SC SOUTH DAKOTA SD TENNESSEE TN TEXAS TX UTAH UT VERMONT VT VIRGINIA VA WASHINGTON WA WEST VIRGINIA WV WISCONSIN WI WYOMING WY Panel data from Auburn Judge dataset Dempanel: Proportion of judges on appellate panel with Democratic party affiliation. Demmaj: Dummy variable 1 if panel of judges has a democratic majority 0 otherwise. Agpanel: Number of judges on appellate panel who have served as state Attorney General. Nompanel: Panel conservatism with W nominate scores (negative = liberal, positive = conservative) Circuit data from Auburn Judge dataset Circ_pty: Proportion of judges on appellate circuit with Democratic party affiliation. Nominate: circuit conservatism with W nominate scores (negative = liberal, positive = conservative) US Supreme Court variables Proscdum: A dummy coded 1 after thomas completes the pro state bloc. *Post Rehnquist appointment equals 1 (lagged one year) *Post O'Connor equals 2. *Post Scalia equals 3. *Post Kennedy equals 4. *Post Thomas equals 5 Variables built off of case data from Songer dataset Agstate: Numeric state id for AG Biggest: Dummy variable for largest state (by population) in circuit. Petition: Is the Attorney General the Petitioner (1) or Respondent (0) for this case. (If AG's are both petitioner and respondent, the record appears twice in the dataset, once with data on the petitioning AG, once with data on the respondent AG.) Winner: Was the case won by the Petitioner "P" or the Respondent "R". Opinlgth: The total length (in pages) of the opinions in each case. Complex: Is total length of the opinions in the case greater than 6? If yes, (1), otherwise (0). Reverse: Dummy indicating if the circuit reversed the district court in any form or fashion. Policy: Is this a potential policy making case (dissents or reversal of lower court). Lwrctdir: Code for ideological direction of lower court decision used to create Statideo. Statideo: indicating the directionality of the state's position based upon whether the state is petitioning or responding and the direction of the lower court decision. Agwin: Dummy variable for outcome of case. Ruling in favor of the state attorney general = 1, otherwise 0. Criminal: Is the case a criminal (1) case or not (0). Pet2: Inverse of partioner, used to create Crimpet variable. Crimpet: Interaction term created by criminal * petition. (crimpet=criminal*pet2) Indiv: Dummy identifies individual appelants- used to create defpris. Civpris: Dummy for civil cases involving prisoners used to create defpris. Defpris:Prisoner Apellant are individual criminal appeals or individual civil appeals by prisoners code 1 IF ((indiv = 1) AND IF ((geniss = 1)| (civpris=1))) code 0 otherwise Economic: Is the case an economic (1) case or not (0). Private: Inadvertent copy of indiv variable - used to create pveconap. Pveconap: 1 for private party economic case appellant, 0 otherwise. Strgopp: Dummy for strong opponent. Is the opposing party either: the federal government or a private business. circdc: Dummy variable for D.C. Circuit circ1: Dummy variable for First Circuit circ2: Dummy variable for Second Circuit circ3: Dummy variable for Third Circuit circ4: Dummy variable for Fourth Circuit circ5: Dummy variable for Fifth Circuit circ6: Dummy variable for Sixth Circuit circ7: Dummy variable for Seventh Circuit circ8: Dummy variable for Eighth Circuit circ9: Dummy variable for Ninth Circuit circ10: Dummy variable for Tenth Circuit circ11: Dummy variable for Eleventh Circuit agree_p: Ideological agreement between panel and state. (Interaction of statideo and nompanel) agree_c: Ideological agreement between circuit and state. (Interaction of statideo and nominate)