MADRS_MaddenDissertation_Chapter6Results

This dataset contains Madden's Adjudicative Decision Readability Score (MADRS) results for 1621 Canadian court or administrative tribunal decisions that were released in 2022. Each decision (line) contains the MADRS result, a filename (that includes the citation to the case), and other metadata about the case (court level, jurisdiction, legal subject area, judge name, judge gender, opinion type, number of judges agreeing with the opinion, and percentage of judges agreeing with the opinion). It also provides a breakdown of scores for each of the 6 component variables that contribute to the MADRS readability formula.