Electoral turnover on state supreme courts shifts tort doctrine outcomes.

Evidence

Indeed, a study of judicial elections in Ohio concluded that their outcomes dramatically affected the court’s rulings in tort cases: “Seats changed hands between pro-plaintiff and pro-defendant justices with remarkable frequency, and the court’s membership changes often produced marked shifts in doc- As school finance and same-sex-marriage cases reveal, constitutional policymaking in state courts is influenced by those courts’ relations with federal courts, supreme courts of other states, and other institutions of state government. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 3532

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Chapter 3’s treatment of state judicial elections and to the course theme that selection methods shape doctrine.
• QUESTION: The textbook truncates the quotation — worth chasing the full Ohio study to see how large the doctrinal swings actually were.