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 +1.85 29 2807 96.8× 11
statute +1.70 56 2892 51.6× 3
jury +1.62 102 4006 39.3× 6
courts +1.62 84 3912 46.6× 12
statutory +1.61 122 4269 35.0× 3
discretion +1.59 357 6673 18.7× 4
filing +1.58 713 9961 14.0× 2
federal +1.58 53 2520 47.5× 7
provision +1.57 129 4998 38.7× 9
petition +1.54 250 5398 21.6× 5
affirmed +1.53 724 9257 12.8× 3
presumption +1.52 608 8571 14.1× 2
offense +1.51 317 7044 22.2× 3
proceedings +1.50 201 5137 25.6× 7
deference +1.46 741 8566 11.6× 3
employer +1.44 413 6044 14.6× 6
judgment +1.42 90 2866 31.8× 7
Court's +1.42 163 4634 28.4× 2
reasonably +1.41 584 7032 12.0× 4
trial +1.39 95 2582 27.2× 12
review +1.36 112 3158 28.2× 13
claims +1.36 108 2879 26.7× 15
decision +1.34 91 2646 29.1× 14
claim +1.34 81 2233 27.6× 16
agency +1.34 207 4649 22.5× 9
filed +1.32 279 5069 18.2× 7
verdict +1.32 824 7214 8.8× 4
complaint +1.32 418 4852 11.6× 5
issue +1.32 89 2556 28.7× 17
eases +1.31 839 7350 8.8× 2
jurisdiction +1.30 113 2688 23.8× 5
reasonable +1.28 158 3161 20.0× 10
counsel +1.28 179 3571 20.0× 4
criminal +1.27 144 3603 25.0× 8
convictions +1.27 886 7447 8.4× 4
expressly +1.26 640 6178 9.7× 3
intent +1.26 287 4245 14.8× 8
employee +1.25 389 5031 12.9× 5
provisions +1.25 234 3955 16.9× 9
unreasonable +1.24 638 5570 8.7× 3
District +1.24 133 3283 24.7× 7
damages +1.23 211 3206 15.2× 3
defendant +1.23 120 2741 22.8× 2
conviction +1.23 319 4316 13.5× 6
warrant +1.23 543 5136 9.5× 5
conduct +1.22 138 2806 20.3× 12
opinion +1.21 79 1672 21.2× 11
judges +1.21 480 5150 10.7× 7
disclosure +1.21 1198 8183 6.8× 2
reasoned +1.20 1341 8632 6.4× 3
remedy +1.20 466 4628 9.9× 9
court +1.20 59 1262 21.4× 12
alien +1.19 1017 7027 6.9× 4
requirement +1.19 165 3139 19.0× 8
waiver +1.17 991 5494 5.5× 2
omitted +1.17 292 3922 13.4× 7
State +1.17 69 1570 22.8× 13
constitutional +1.16 107 1917 17.9× 5
merits +1.16 601 5062 8.4× 6
testified +1.16 1431 8714 6.1× 2
violation +1.16 222 3290 14.8× 4
testimony +1.16 385 4464 11.6× 9
determination +1.16 331 3904 11.8× 8
compel +1.15 1805 9832 5.4× 2
respondents +1.15 203 3219 15.9× 2
alleged +1.14 405 4597 11.4× 6
appeals +1.14 818 6446 7.9× 6
sentence +1.12 155 2675 17.3× 11
pursuant +1.12 552 3811 6.9× 2
fee +1.12 677 5813 8.6× 4
dismiss +1.12 1390 7827 5.6× 3
relief +1.11 187 2788 14.9× 10
plea +1.11 909 5924 6.5× 3
Federal +1.11 157 2644 16.8× 6
application +1.11 152 2832 18.6× 18
appeal +1.11 276 3325 12.0× 10
prosecution +1.10 537 4510 8.4× 3
ordinarily +1.10 1467 7868 5.4× 3
remedies +1.10 659 4854 7.4× 3
barred +1.09 1252 7013 5.6× 4
limitation +1.09 594 3806 6.4× 2
question +1.08 77 1538 20.0× 17
Justice +1.08 293 3565 12.2× 7
proceeding +1.07 513 3745 7.3× 6
penalty +1.07 318 3770 11.9× 7
statutes +1.07 309 3210 10.4× 3
Title +1.07 1588 7789 4.9× 2
imposes +1.07 1146 5241 4.6× 2
impose +1.06 502 5014 10.0× 4
Act +1.05 227 3262 14.4× 10
prohibition +1.05 823 5665 6.9× 6
apply +1.05 219 2883 13.2× 17
accommodation +1.05 1734 8498 4.9× 2
noting +1.05 618 5478 8.9× 5
authority +1.05 126 1935 15.4× 12
fails +1.04 906 5923 6.5× 8
allegations +1.04 1160 5080 4.4× 2
prospective +1.04 2106 9731 4.6× 2
conclusion +1.04 230 2744 11.9× 13
prosecutor +1.04 1203 6367 5.3× 2