For the past few weeks, we’ve been tracking the average time between each milestone of civil and criminal cases at the California Supreme Court, year by year since 1990. This time, we’re looking at the average wait from the filing of the last brief to oral argument in criminal cases. As before, for the moment
Yesterday, we reviewed the data for the average wait from filing of the opening brief to filing of the reply brief. This time, we move to the next step: the average wait from filing of the reply brief to filing of the final brief – amicus or supplemental.
During the 1990s, the relatively few additional
Today, we’re looking at the lag time data for the next step in a criminal case – the wait from the order appointing counsel to the filing of the opening brief (which is generally, but by no means always, by the defendant). One very big caution with today’s numbers: for this post, we’re covering all
This time, we’re reviewing the lag time data for the second step in the typical non-death penalty criminal case at the Supreme Court: the average days from the order granting review to the order appointing counsel.
In 1990, the average wait was 44 days. That fell to 35.33 in 1991 but rose to 60.82 the
For the past several weeks, we’ve been reviewing detailed lag time data on the civil side. Now, we’re going to look at the criminal side of the docket. First up: what’s the average lag time from the filing of a petition for review to the order granting review?
The average progressively edged upwards during the
Last time, we showed that the lag time from the end of party briefing to oral argument was longer for civil cases in which the Court was divided than cases which were ultimately decided unanimously. But is lag time related to the degree of disagreement? Do 4-3 decisions take the longest, or do 6-1 decisions
Last time, we looked at the lag time from the end of party briefing to oral argument – our proxy for the period in which the Court tentatively decides the case – to see whether there was a correlation to the end result in the case. In other words, do affirmances or reversals consistently take
Last week, we investigated whether the lag time from the end of briefing, including amicus and supplemental briefing, to oral argument suggests the likeliest result – in other words, do affirmances or reversals consistently take longer?
In Table 1160, we report the lag times from end of party briefing to oral argument, divided by civil
Last time, we looked at the data from civil cases for the average lag time from the end of briefing – whether that’s the appellant’s reply brief or (much more often in civil cases) an amicus or supplemental brief – to oral argument. But what does the lag time look like if we measure the
In previous posts, we’ve suggested that the period from the end of amicus/supplemental briefing to the oral argument is a reasonable proxy for the Court’s decisional period. So, if we revisit the data, divided by affirmances, reversals and split decisions (partly affirmed, partly reversed) – can we predict the result based on the wait from