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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

S. Sidney Ulmer*
Affiliation:
University of Kentucky

Abstract

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Communications to the Editor
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 1967

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References

1 Theodore L. Becker, “A Survey Study of Hawaiian Judges: The Effect on Decisions of Judicial Role Variations,” this Review, 60 (Sept. 1966), 677–680.

2 Ibid., p. 677.

3 March, James G., “Sociological Jurisprudence Revisited, A Review (More or Less) of Max Gluckman,” Stanford Law Review, 8 (1956), p. 505CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

4 Op. cit., p. 679.

5 Since objective decision is defined as a decision consistent with the requirement of precedent but contrary to the judge's own “enlightened” view, it is necessary to know whether all judges perceive the requirement of precedent in a given hypothetical case in similar terms. Although the author does not go into this question, consensual cognition must be assumed in his model. Such an assumption may be questioned.

6 See: Guilford, J. P., Fundamental Statistics in Psychology and Education (New York: 1956), p. 237Google Scholar.

7 A more detailed explanation of this “theory” and the data breakdown used are available on request.