Table 7: Justice Thomas’s vote to join the Majority to Uphold Precedent in Salient versus Cases on the Roberts Court (2005-2014) Independent Thomas’s Change in Thomas’s Change in Conservative Probabilities Liberal Voting Voting Constant -6.011 -6.533 High Case Salience .208 .000 -.122 .000 (.409) (.557) Low Case Salience .997 .004 .926 .003 (.376) (.485) Minimum Winning .101 .000 -.712*** -.001 Coalition (.120) (.202) Constitutional Cases 2.331*** .024 2.959*** .025 (.242) (.300) Federal Statute 2.754*** .036 3.177*** .030 Cases (.126) (.155) Civil Rights cases .723*** .003 .313 .001 (.164) (.223) Chi-Square 703.9 428.3 Log Likelihood 5249.4 3191.6 Dependent variable: Justice with majority to uphold precedent; *: p<0.05; **: p<0.01; ***: p<0.001 N=709 Probabilities represent the increase (or decline) in the probability that the justice joined the majority to uphold precedent for every one standard deviation change in the independent variable from 0 to 1 for dummy variables, holding all the other independent variables at their respective means. SPSS and Excel
Table 7: Justice Thomas’s vote to join the Majority to Uphold Precedent in Salient versus Cases on the Roberts Court (2005-2014) Independent Thomas’s Conservative Voting Change in Probabilities Thomas’s Liberal Voting Change in Constant -6.011 -6.533 High Case Salience .208 (.409) .000 -.122 (.557) .000 Low Case Salience .997 (.376) .004 .926 (.485) .003 Minimum Winning Coalition .101 (.120) .000 -.712*** (.202) -.001 Constitutional Cases 2.331*** (.242) .024 2.959*** (.300) .025 Federal Statute Cases 2.754*** (.126) .036 3.177*** (.155) .030 Civil Rights cases .723*** (.164) .003 .313 (.223) .001 Chi-Square 703.9 428.3 Log Likelihood 5249.4 3191.6 Dependent variable: Justice with majority to uphold precedent; *: p<0.05; **: p<0.01; ***: p<0.001 N=709 Probabilities represent the increase (or decline) in the probability that the justice joined the majority to uphold precedent for every one standard deviation change in the independent variable from 0 to 1 for dummy variables, holding all the other independent variables at their respective means. SPSS and Excel