Uniquely weak in copyright cases.
Samuelson 23 [Pamela; Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law, Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, and published widely in the areas of copyright, software protection and cyberlaw; 3/7/2023; "The Solicitor General's Mixed Record of Success in Supreme Court Copyright Cases"; University of California, Berkeley School of Law; https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4381579 ;] s.low
Of the sixteen copyright cases in which OSG has participated as amicus since 1978, the Court has disagreed with OSG in ten (64%) (with one case still pending). 366 This contrasts with the findings of empirical studies of OSG’s influence in the 2010s which found that OSG’s views prevailed in roughly three-quarters of the cases in which it filed as amicus. 367 These data are consistent with empirical findings about OSG’s amicus success over several decades. 368