diff --git a/R/data.R b/R/data.R
index 678ad79..4729b13 100644
--- a/R/data.R
+++ b/R/data.R
@@ -644,8 +644,9 @@ NULL
 
 #' Supreme Court justice tenure
 #'
-#' Data from Zorn and Van Winkle (2000) how long all 107 justices appointed to
-#' the U.S. Supreme Court between 1789 and 1980 remained in their position.
+#' Data from Zorn and Van Winkle (2000) measuring how long all 107 justices
+#' appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court between 1789 and 1980 remained in their
+#' position.
 #'
 #' @format
 #' A person-level data frame with `r nrow(judges)` rows and
diff --git a/man/judges.Rd b/man/judges.Rd
index 01657e4..9f31f62 100644
--- a/man/judges.Rd
+++ b/man/judges.Rd
@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ Court vacancies, 1780–1992. Political Behavior, 22, 145–166.
 judges
 }
 \description{
-Data from Zorn and Van Winkle (2000) how long all 107 justices appointed to
-the U.S. Supreme Court between 1789 and 1980 remained in their position.
+Data from Zorn and Van Winkle (2000) measuring how long all 107 justices
+appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court between 1789 and 1980 remained in their
+position.
 }
 \keyword{datasets}