Today, we’re reviewing the metric we’ve argued in past posts is a reasonable proxy for determining the degree to which a particular Justice is in sync ideologically with the rest of his Court (and/or the degree of influence that Justice has on the Court). For purposes of this number, we’re including only total agreement –
Today, we’re continuing our multi-part series on the soon-to-conclude tenure on the Court of Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar.
We begin this time with a review of Justice Cuéllar’s votes. To simplify our numbers (and since it’s the smallest portion of the docket), we disregard the certified question appeals where the Court’s holding was something other than
As we continue our review of Justice Cuéllar’s nearly seven years on the California Supreme Court, today we’re looking at his published opinions. Since joining the Court, Justice Cuéllar has written 99 opinions – 43 in civil cases and 56 in criminal cases.
Justice Cuéllar has written a total of 27 civil majority opinions along
The resignation of Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar from the California Supreme Court becomes effective on Sunday, October 31. Today, we’re beginning a four-part review of Justice Cuéllar’s tenure.
Justice Cuéllar took his seat on the Court on January 5, 2015, replacing retired Justice Marvin Baxter. Since that time, he has participated in 513 cases (assuming no
Reprinted with permission from the October 2017 issue of ALI CLE’s The Practical Lawyer.
On Lex Machina’s platform, counsel can use the “motion kickstarter” to survey recent motions before the assigned trial judge. The “motion chain” links together the briefing and the eventual order for each motion, so counsel can identify the arguments which
Reprinted with permission from the October 2017 issue of ALI CLE’s The Practical Lawyer.
Cross-posted from the Illinois Supreme Court Review.
“In God we trust. All others must bring data.”
— Professor William Edwards Deming
All of us who often speak and write about the ongoing revolution in data analytics for litigation have heard
The Court decided five tort cases from the First District between 2010 and 2020 – one from Division Three, four from Division Four and one from Division Five. The Court decided 22 cases from the Second District. There were four cases from Division One, three each from Division Three and Division Four, seven from Division
The reversal rate for tort cases in 2010 was 50%. In 2011 and 2012, all tort cases were reversed. In 2013, no tort decisions were reversed. In 2014, the reversal rate was 50%. In 2015, the rate dropped to zero. The reversal rate was 57.14% in 2016, 33.33% in 2017 and 60% in 2018. All
This time, we’re tracing the California Supreme Court’s tort docket by Districts of the Court of Appeal for the years 2000 through 2009. During the decade, the Second District had 26 tort cases on the Supreme Court’s docket – 1 from Division One, 2 from Division Two, 7 from Division 3, 3 from Division 4,
This time, we’re reviewing the data on the Court’s tort docket for the years 2000 through 2009.
The Court’s overall reversal rate in tort cases was down somewhat from the nineties. Only 50% of the tort cases in 2000 were reversed. The reversal rate was down to 44.44% in 2001 and 42.86% in 2002. It