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6206opinions
Whalen's readability study covers 6,206 U.S. Supreme Court opinions, taken from the CourtListener archive.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“This results in a dataset containing the full text of 6,206 Supreme Court opinions.”
Judicial Gobbledygook: The Readability of Supreme Court Writing, Ryan Whalen, Yale Law Journal Forum, 2015, Part I, Method.
Open the original- What it measures
- The essay downloaded every Supreme Court decision since 1946 that CourtListener holds, then measured each one.
- What it does not show
- The sample is U.S. Supreme Court writing. It does not include Indian court judgments.