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An investigation of how US Supreme Court justices have decided whether to accept cases (certiorari voting) from a lower appeals court, covering seven US Supreme Court terms (the 1950/1952 Vinson Courts, 1963/1965/1967 Warren Courts, 1972/1974 Burger Courts), using data collected from the docket books of justices Harold Burton, Tom Clark, & William Brennen. Results show that the major decision-making strategies used were error correcting, prediction, & majority; ie, the justices voted to accept cases to: correct what they felt was an erroneous judgment on the appeals level; elevate an appeals decision to the national level, predicting that the judgment would be affirmed at the Supreme Court level; & vote with the majority. Interactions between these strategies are discussed, & the impact of conservative vs liberal orientation is considered. 3 Tables, 14 References. A. Cole