Table 1.

Tropes: maximally divergent terms by Mann-Whitney Rho (MWR) score. An MWR score close to 0 means that a term is used consistently more often by the defence, a score close to 1 means the term is consistently used more often by plaintiffs.

Defence attorneys will often say:				Plaintiffs’ attorneys will often say:
	Defence	Plaintiffs	MWR		Defence	Plaintiffs	MWR
plaintiff	4306	536	0.06	they knew	148	2239	0.96
quit smoking	2975	435	0.07	they	43 562	19 444	0.96
quit	11 668	3922	0.08	what they did	57	774	0.95
s/he never	1915	236	0.09	their	4193	9240	0.91
Mr/Mrs/Ms	32 912	15 514	0.10	doubt	411	1550	0.89
decision/s	2857	761	0.12	drug	128	945	0.88
smoking	19 707	11 419	0.13	they were	1616	3875	0.88
smoking is/was dangerous	23	631	0.13	product	599	2232	0.87
risk/s	2580	791	0.14	our	1168	3125	0.87
warning/s	2864	813	0.14	truth	1501	292	0.87

P values <0.0001 for all MWR values.

This table excludes highly similar terms: ‘plaintiff’ is included, for example, but ‘the plaintiff’ and ‘plaintiff has’ are excluded.

MWR, Mann-Whitney Rho.