For many years, the docket books kept by certain of the Taft Court justices have been held by the Office of the Curator of the Supreme Court. Yet the existence of these docket books was not widely known, and access to them was highly restricted. In April of 2014, however, the Court adopted new guidelines designed to increase access to the docket books for researchers. This article offers a report and analysis based on a review of all of the Taft Court docket books held by the Office of the Curator, which are the only such docket books known to have survived.This article examines the available docket book entries relevant to what scholars commonly regard as the major decisions of the Taft Court. This examination includes 117 cases concerning areas of law as diverse as the Commerce Clause, the dormant Commerce Clause, substantive due process, equal protection, the general law, antitrust, intergovernmental tax immunities, criminal procedure, civil rights, and civil liberties. The information in the docket books, which frequently includes notes of conference discussions, sheds particularly interesting new light on decisions such as Whitney v. California, Village of Euclid v. Ambler, Adkins v. Children’s Hospital and its successor minimum wage cases, Pierce v. Society of Sisters, Buck v. Bell, Frothingham v. Mellon, Wolff Packing v. Court of Industrial Relations, Fiske v. Kansas, Tyson & Bro. v. Banton, Coronado Coal v. United Mine Workers, Corrigan v. Buckley, Miles v. Graham, Brooks v. United States, and Radice v. New York. The docket books also provide records of instances in which a case that initially was assigned to one justice later was reassigned to another. These records afford us some insight into the kinds of cases in which this tended to occur, and provide an opportunity to document for the first time the long held suspicion that the notoriously slow-writing Justice Willis Van Devanter frequently was relieved of his opinions by the Chief Justice.In addition, this article reports on whether a unanimous decision also was free from dissent at conference or became so only because one or more justices acquiesced in the judgment of their colleagues, and on whether non-unanimous decisions were divided by the same vote and with the same alliances at conference. This in turn makes possible contributions to two bodies of political science literature on judicial behavior: first, to the scholarship on vote fluidity and unanimity norms in the Supreme Court; and second, to the so-called “freshman effect” argued by some to characterize the voting behavior of newcomers to the Court.

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塔夫脱法院内部：案卷书的教训

多年来，某些塔夫脱法院法官保存的案卷簿一直由最高法院馆长办公室保管。然而，这些记事本的存在并不广为人知，并且对它们的访问受到严格限制。然而，在 2014 年 4 月，法院通过了新的指导方针，旨在增加研究人员获得记录簿的机会。本文提供了一份报告和分析，基于对馆长办公室持有的所有塔夫脱法院案卷的审查，这些案卷是已知唯一幸存的此类案卷。本文检查了与以下内容相关的可用案卷条目学者们普遍认为是塔夫脱法院的重大决定。该审查包括 117 起案件，涉及的法律领域多种多样，如商务条款、休眠商务条款、实质性正当程序、平等保护、一般法、反垄断、政府间税收豁免、刑事诉讼、公民权利和公民自由。案卷书中的信息经常包括会议讨论的笔记，为诸如惠特尼诉加利福尼亚、欧几里德村诉安布勒、阿德金斯诉儿童医院及其后续最低工资案件、皮尔斯诉加利福尼亚等决定提供了特别有趣的新视角. 姐妹会，巴克诉贝尔，弗罗辛汉姆诉梅隆，沃尔夫包装诉劳资关系法院，菲斯克诉堪萨斯，泰森兄弟。诉班顿案、科罗纳多煤炭诉联合矿业工人案、科里根诉巴克利案、迈尔斯诉格雷厄姆案、布鲁克斯诉美国案和拉迪斯诉纽约案。案卷簿还提供了最初分配给一位法官的案件后来被重新分配给另一位法官的情况的记录。这些记录让我们对发生这种情况的案件种类有了一些了解，并提供了一个机会来首次记录长期以来的怀疑，即臭名昭著的写作缓慢的威利斯范德万特法官经常被法官解除他的意见。首席大法官。此外，本文还报告了一致决定是否在会议上也没有异议或仅因一名或多名法官默许其同事的判决而变得如此，以及非一致决定是否被相同的人分开在会议上投票并与相同的联盟。这反过来又为关于司法行为的两个政治科学文献做出了贡献：第一，最高法院关于投票流动性和一致同意规范的研究；其次，