Today, we begin the second phase of our review of the Justices’ individual voting records. The percentage of the time a particular Justice votes in the majority and the minority is one measure of to what degree she or he is in philosophical sync with the rest of the Court. When applied to a Chief
Today we’re concluding our initial review of the Justices’ voting records by reviewing Justice Cuellar and Justice Groban.
Since joining the Court in 2015, Justice Cuellar has voted in 201 civil cases. He has voted in affirm in 73 cases and to reverse 90 times. Those votes show a curious time pattern: in 2015 and
Justice Leondra R. Kruger took her seat on the Court on January 5, 2015. Between that time and the end of 2020, she had voted in precisely 200 civil cases. She has voted to affirm in only 63 of those cases, or 31.5% of the total. She had voted to reverse in full 95 times,
Today, we’re turning our attention to our initial examination of Justice Liu’s voting record.
Justice Goodwin Liu took his seat on the Court on September 1, 2011. Since that time, he has voted in 292 civil cases. The distribution of his votes is similar to the Chief Justice and Justice Corrigan. From 2011 through the
Today, we’re examining the Chief Justice’s voting record in civil cases.
Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye took her seat on January 3, 2011. Since that time, she has voted in 312 civil cases. Consistent with the slight uptick in the Court’s production in civil cases in the second half of the Chief Justice’s tenure, she cast 139
This week, we’re beginning a more detailed examination of the individual Justices’ voting records. We start with Justice Corrigan’s record in civil cases.
With the retirement of Justice Chin, Justice Corrigan is now the senior Associate Justice on the Court. Since joining the Court in 2006, she has voted in 535 civil cases. Although the
Today, we’re dissecting the reversal rate in criminal cases from Division 1 of the Second District. The following areas of law were the biggest players on the criminal docket in terms of cases which went to the Supreme Court: constitutional law (23.53%); criminal procedure (20.59%); sentencing (14.71%); and violent crimes (11.76%).
The overall reversal rate
The last couple of weeks, we’ve looked at reversal rates for the Court of Appeal in cases at the Supreme Court. But the difficulty which few people talk about is that reversal rates are nearly always a composite statistic – either “all cases,” or at most all civil cases or all criminal. But mathematically, a
Last time, we reviewed reversal rates in criminal cases from the Divisions of Los Angeles’ Second District. Today, we’re looking at the rest of the state – San Francisco’s First District, Divisions One through Five, the Third District, District Four, Divisions One, Two and Three, and the Fifth and Sixth Districts.
Division 2 of the
Last week, we reviewed reversal rates for the Court of Appeal in civil cases. This week, we’re looking at the criminal side of the docket. First up – the Divisions of the Second District.
Division One has fared the worst since 1990, with a reversal rate in criminal cases of 73.53%. Division Six was close