Models of judicial decision making

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Models of judicial decision making are developed by researchers and scholars to provide an explanation for the votes of United States Supreme Court Justices.

With the Supreme Court holding such importance in the American legal and political system, researchers, scholars, and court-watchers have long tried to understand the motivations of its justices.

There are three main models of Judicial decision making: the legal model, the attitudinal model, and the strategic model.