For the past two weeks, we’ve been reviewing in detail the Court’s constitutional law decisions on both the civil and criminal law side.  This week and next, we’re looking at one of the Court’s next most common types of cases – civil and criminal procedure decisions.  Between 1992 and 2017, the Court decided 170 cases involving civil procedure questions.

In Table 455, we review the year-by-year data.  The Court decided 4 civil procedure cases in 1992, 5 in 1993, 5 in 1994, 8 in 1995, 2 in 1996 and 8 in 1997.

In 1998, the Court decided six civil procedure cases.  The Court decided 14 cases in 1999, 12 in 2000, 3 in 2001, 8 in 2002 and 5 cases in 2003.

The Court decided ten civil procedure cases in 2004.  The Court decided 7 cases in 2005, 12 in 2006, 10 in 2007, 3 in 2008 and 4 in 2009.

The Court’s civil procedure caseload was consistent from 2010 through 2014 – 4 cases in 2010, 5 in 2011, 4 in 2012, 5 in 2013, 4 in 2014.  The Court decided 2 civil procedure cases in 2015, 7 cases in 2016 and 13 cases in 2017.

Join us back here tomorrow as we address the Court’s criminal procedure decisions.

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