{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/constitutional-precedent-of-amicus-briefs","title":"Constitutional Precedent of Amicus Briefs","arxiv_id":"1606.04672","date":"2016-06-15","proceeding":null,"authors":["Allen Huang","Lars Roemheld"],"abstract":"We investigate shared language between U.S. Supreme Court majority opinions\nand interest groups' corresponding amicus briefs. Specifically, we evaluate\nwhether language that originated in an amicus brief acquired legal precedent\nstatus by being cited in the Court's opinion. Using plagiarism detection\nsoftware, automated querying of a large legal database, and manual analysis, we\nestablish seven instances where interest group amici were able to formulate\nconstitutional case law, setting binding legal precedent. We discuss several\nsuch instances for their implications in the Supreme Court's creation of case\nlaw.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.04672v2","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.04672v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"constitutional-precedent-of-amicus-briefs","repo_url":"https://github.com/larsroemheld/mse330-scotus-briefs","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}