The party alignment of the Supreme Court remained at six Republican appointees and one Democratic appointee from 2000 through 2009. Across the entire period, the unanimity rate was 66.05% – twenty points higher than the unanimity rate for the 1990s. The unanimity rate for 2000 was only 48.98%. It rose to 56.25% for 2001. After
This week, we’ve following up our discussion of the academic literature on panel effects with a review of the Court’s unanimity rates compared against the evolving party alignment of the Court.
For 1990 and part of 1991, the party alignment of the Court was five Republicans and two Democrats. For those two years, the Court’s
This time, we’re concluding our four-part post, both here and on the Illinois Supreme Court Review, discussing some of the academic literature on panel effects in appellate decision-making.
Today, we’re looking at “Judging the Voting Rights Act,” 108 Columbia Law Rev. 1 (2008), by Professors Adam B. Cox and Thomas J. Miles.
Earlier this week, we began a four-part post at the Illinois Supreme Court Review briefly reviewing some of the leading academic literature on the phenomenon of “panel effects” – the theory that appellate panels are a collective decision-maker rather than a group of individual decision-makers, and thus a particular judge’s vote is influenced to some
We conclude our series by reviewing the data for criminal, quasi-criminal and juvenile justice cases between the years 2010 and 2020. Once again, Los Angeles led, accounting for 142 cases. Riverside County was next, followed by San Diego, Orange, San Bernardino, Santa Clara, Sacramento and Alameda counties. San Francisco, which was among the leaders in
This week, we’re concluding our three-week multi-part post on the originating jurisdictions for the California Supreme Court’s civil and criminal cases between 1990 and 2020. In this post, we’re finishing the civil side of the docket, reviewing the years 2010 to 2020.
As usual, we omit the leading jurisdiction, Los Angeles County, from the Table
Between 2000 and 2009, the California Supreme Court decided 617 criminal, quasi-criminal and juvenile justice cases. Los Angeles County accounted for 188 of those cases. Orange County was second, followed by San Diego, Santa Clara, Alameda, Riverside and Sacramento counties.
Twenty additional jurisdictions which produced more than one case apiece during these years are reported
Today, we’re reporting the originating jurisdictions for the Supreme Court between the years 2000 and 2009. We omit Los Angeles County from the Table to make it more easily readable. Los Angeles County accounted for 147 civil cases between 2000 and 2009.
San Francisco County was twelfth in population but second in criminal cases. Next
In Table 1496, we report the jurisdictions where the Court’s criminal cases originated between 1990 and 1999. Los Angeles County accounted for 111 cases. The State Bar Court was next, followed by Orange County, the third most populous county in the state. Santa Clara County, the sixth most populous county, was next followed by San
This week, we’re reviewing the jurisdictions in which the Supreme Court’s civil and criminal dockets originated for the years 1990 through 1999. As we said earlier on the Illinois Supreme Court Review, this is important for the same reason that tracking which Districts and Divisions of the Court of Appeal the Court is taking its