In 2004, then-appeals court Judge John Roberts Jr. tested a newly discovered theory for predicting Supreme Court outcomes. Using oral argument transcripts, he tallied the number of questions justices asked of advocates in a significant sampling of cases.
Eighty-six percent of the time, Roberts reported in a talk to the Supreme Court Historical Society, the lawyer for the party that ultimately lost had gotten the most questions.
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