• Dynamic Ideal Point Estimation via Markov Chain Monte Carlo for the U.S. Supreme Court, 1953-1999
    Andrew D. Martin and Kevin M. Quinn. 2002.
    Political Analysis. 10: 134-153.
    [ PDF / WEB SUPPLEMENT]

  • The Median Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court
    Andrew D. Martin, Kevin M. Quinn, and Lee Epstein. 2005.
    North Carolina Law Review. 83: 1275-1321.
    [ PDF ]

  • The `Rehnquist' Court (?)
    Andrew D. Martin, Kevin M. Quinn, and Lee Epstein. 2005.
    Law and Courts. 15: 18-23.
    [ PDF ]

  • Assessing Preference Change on the U.S. Supreme Court
    Andrew D. Martin and Kevin M. Quinn. 2007.
    Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 23:303-325.
    [ PDF ]

  • Ideological Drift Among Supreme Court Justices: Who, When, and How Important?
    Lee Epstein, Andrew D. Martin, Kevin M. Quinn, and Jeffrey A. Segal. 2007.
    Northwestern University Law Review, forthcoming.
    [ PDF ]

  • Can Ideal Point Estimates be Used as Explanatory Variables?
    Andrew D. Martin and Kevin M. Quinn. 2005.
    Unpublished working paper.
    [ PDF ]

  • Improving Judicial Ideal Point Estimates with a More Realistic Model of Opinion Content
    Kevin M. Quinn, Jong Hee Park, and Andrew D. Martin. 2006.
    Unpublished working paper.
    [ PDF ]



  • "Ask the Author": Andrew Martin
    SCOTUS Blog
    October 18, 2007
    [ LINK ][ PDF ]

  • The Drifters
    TIME
    April 8, 2007
    [ PDF ]

  • Justices Are of an Opinion, but Not Often
    Washington Post
    March 26, 2007
    [ PDF ]

  • High Court's Recent Changes May Be Just First Act
    Wall Street Journal
    February 1, 2006
    [ PDF ]

  • The Supreme Court in Flux--Always
    University of Washington A&S Perspectives
    Autumn 2001
    [ LINK ]

  • The Past and Future of Ideal Point Estimation
    Keith Poole keynote address at the Ideal Point Estimation Conference. 2002.
    Streaming provided by the Weidenbaum Center.
    [ STREAM ]



  • Supreme Court Forecasting Project
    A related project where we forecasted Supreme Court decisions.
    [ LINK ]

  • OYEZ
    An impressive collection of Supreme Court media. Our scores are used to array the justices.
    [ LINK ]

  • Scythe
    Our C++ library used to fit the Martin-Quinn model.
    [ LINK ]

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