Empirical Study of Religious Liberty Decisions (1986-1995)

Empirical studies of establishment clause and free exercise decisions in federal courts are scant. This dataset analyzes various factors surrounding these decisions, such as the religious ideology of the judge and claimant, as well as the content of the decisions themselves. This dataset includes all digested free exercise, religious accommodation, and establishment clause claims made by the federal court of appeals and district court judges from 1986 through 1995. All files, including modeling results, are available here.