Word tokens

Words characteristic of legal_scotus

Word frequency data from Supreme Court opinions, 1997-2006

Ranked by Zipf delta: how much more common a word is here than its average across the 18 other corpora (19th_books, 20th_books, wiki_math, wiki_geography, wiki_biology, wiki_modern_life, wiki_arts, wiki_society, wiki_linguistics, wiki_physical_science, wiki_history, early_modern_science, religious_translated, cooking, eu_parliament_debates, openstax_science, openstax_society, wpa_life_histories). +1.00 means ten times as common here. The ranks beside it say the same thing in readable terms — they are not used for sorting, because the corpora are different sizes and rank 500 does not mean the same thing in each.
Most skewed toward legal_scotus 100 shown
Word Zipf Δ Rank here Mean rank elsewhere Rank ratio Corpora
Court +1.77 27 2577 95.5× 11
statute +1.72 56 2896 51.7× 3
statutory +1.61 122 4265 35.0× 3
discretion +1.59 363 6671 18.4× 4
filing +1.58 713 9952 14.0× 2
provision +1.57 130 5000 38.5× 9
jury +1.56 103 3914 38.0× 6
petition +1.54 252 5412 21.5× 5
affirmed +1.53 723 9251 12.8× 3
presumption +1.52 612 8576 14.0× 2
offense +1.51 322 7040 21.9× 3
courts +1.51 87 3440 39.5× 12
judgment +1.50 80 2919 36.5× 9
proceedings +1.50 202 5132 25.4× 7
deference +1.46 741 8555 11.5× 3
federal +1.46 46 2243 48.8× 8
Court's +1.41 165 4633 28.1× 2
reasonably +1.41 587 7026 12.0× 4
trial +1.41 97 2847 29.3× 14
review +1.35 112 3077 27.5× 14
claim +1.34 82 2218 27.1× 17
plea +1.33 910 7967 8.8× 2
verdict +1.33 805 7208 9.0× 4
court +1.33 41 1295 31.6× 13
filed +1.33 280 5435 19.4× 6
employer +1.33 417 5469 13.1× 7
decision +1.32 92 2497 27.1× 16
reasonable +1.32 133 2941 22.1× 10
claims +1.31 108 2766 25.6× 15
eases +1.31 846 7349 8.7× 2
complaint +1.30 423 4769 11.3× 4
jurisdiction +1.30 113 2687 23.8× 5
counsel +1.27 183 3566 19.5× 4
convictions +1.27 892 7441 8.3× 4
expressly +1.26 645 6176 9.6× 3
intent +1.26 287 4138 14.4× 9
State +1.26 64 1767 27.6× 14
fee +1.25 659 7252 11.0× 3
criminal +1.25 145 3343 23.1× 10
agency +1.25 208 4262 20.5× 9
unreasonable +1.24 642 5558 8.7× 3
issue +1.24 91 2309 25.4× 17
District +1.24 134 3533 26.4× 6
damages +1.23 213 3206 15.0× 3
provisions +1.23 237 4027 17.0× 8
defendant +1.23 120 2742 22.9× 2
warrant +1.21 546 5040 9.2× 5
disclosure +1.21 1202 8183 6.8× 2
conviction +1.20 323 4014 12.4× 7
reasoned +1.20 1345 8618 6.4× 3
opinion +1.19 79 1620 20.5× 12
remedy +1.19 472 4678 9.9× 8
alien +1.19 1024 7022 6.9× 4
requirement +1.19 167 3138 18.8× 8
conduct +1.17 138 2525 18.3× 13
waiver +1.17 998 5485 5.5× 2
omitted +1.17 294 3926 13.4× 7
merits +1.16 605 5069 8.4× 6
testified +1.16 1433 8716 6.1× 2
employee +1.15 393 4523 11.5× 6
determination +1.15 336 3780 11.3× 9
violation +1.15 226 3290 14.6× 4
compel +1.15 1806 9820 5.4× 2
respondents +1.15 204 3219 15.8× 2
judges +1.14 484 4819 10.0× 8
limitations +1.14 386 4444 11.5× 8
alleged +1.14 409 4597 11.2× 6
constitutional +1.14 107 1868 17.5× 6
appeals +1.14 824 6442 7.8× 6
pursuant +1.12 556 3808 6.8× 2
dismiss +1.11 1395 7821 5.6× 3
testimony +1.11 390 4250 10.9× 8
prosecution +1.10 540 4508 8.3× 3
ordinarily +1.10 1471 7864 5.3× 3
relief +1.09 190 2708 14.3× 11
scrutiny +1.09 857 5774 6.7× 4
barred +1.08 1257 7008 5.6× 4
limitation +1.08 599 3803 6.3× 2
sentence +1.08 160 2500 15.6× 11
proceeding +1.07 516 3749 7.3× 6
statutes +1.07 311 3228 10.4× 3
penalty +1.06 321 3724 11.6× 7
imposes +1.06 1152 5234 4.5× 2
Title +1.06 1588 7786 4.9× 2
immunity +1.06 290 2836 9.8× 3
application +1.06 155 2606 16.8× 17
accommodation +1.05 1735 8500 4.9× 2
noting +1.05 622 5473 8.8× 5
fails +1.04 916 5927 6.5× 8
allegations +1.04 1163 5074 4.4× 2
prosecutor +1.03 1209 6369 5.3× 2
prospective +1.03 2120 9724 4.6× 2
question +1.03 77 1432 18.6× 18
apply +1.03 218 2777 12.7× 18
permit +1.03 470 3838 8.2× 11
appeal +1.03 277 2881 10.4× 11
legitimate +1.03 673 5657 8.4× 8
denial +1.02 834 5242 6.3× 5
conclude +1.02 491 4426 9.0× 8
plurality +1.02 452 3548 7.8× 2