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The primary Journal of Law and Courts article estimates that at least 6.5% of cases would have different outcomes if all cases in its dataset were randomly reassigned to panels. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: Measuring How Much Judges Matter for Case Outcomes · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:926b4cc6a4ef0364334fd33483f804b3b201d73ca54dda79229e2acdf23559d9

The resulting “asymptote” is our best estimate of how many cases would be decided differently if they were randomly reassigned. In this case, we estimate that at least 6.5% of cases would be decided differently if all the cases in our dataset were randomly reassigned.