Perceptions of a Polarized Court: How Division among Justices Shapes the Supreme Court’s Public Image. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 2018. 198 pp. $94.50 (cloth). $32.95 (paper)

Conventional wisdom holds that unanimously decided U.S. Supreme Court cases will garner greater public acceptance. Alternatively, a slightly different version of this wisdom is that larger majorities are better than smaller majorities when it comes to public acceptance of Court decisions. This wisdom pervades scholarship on public opinion of the Court, models of Court decision-making, and, at least anecdotally, the justices themselves. In...