Back to matchesWe found a matchYour institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.TitleUpdating a Classic: “The Poisson Distribution and the Supreme Court” Revisited.AuthorsCole, Julio H.AbstractW.A. Wallis studied vacancies in the US Supreme Court over a 96-year period (1837–1932) and found that the distribution of the number of vacancies per year could be characterized by a Poisson model. This note updates this classic study.SubjectsUNITED States; POISSON distribution; VACANCY chains; WALLIS, W. A.; PROBABILITY theory; DISTRIBUTION (Probability theory); KINNEY, J.; STATISTICAL hypothesis testing; UNITED States. Supreme CourtPublicationTeaching Statistics, 2010, Vol 32, Issue 3, p78ISSN0141-982XPublication typeArticleDOI10.1111/j.1467-9639.2009.00386.x