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Kirk Jenkins brings a wealth of experience to his appellate practice, which focuses on antitrust and constitutional law, as well as products liability, RICO, price fixing, information sharing among competitors and class certification. In addition to handling appeals, he also regularly works with trial teams to ensure that important issues are properly presented and preserved for appellate review.  Mr. Jenkins is a pioneer in the application of data analytics to appellate decision-making and writes two analytics blogs, the California Supreme Court Review and the Illinois Supreme Court Review, as well as regularly writing for various legal publications.

For the past two weeks, we’ve been taking a close look at the Court’s workers compensation cases on the civil side, and its cases involving the elements of violent crimes on the criminal side. This week and next, we’re looking at the Court’s tax law and attorney disciplinary cases. Between 1991 and 2017, the Court

Last time, we took a close look at the workers compensation cases the Court has decided since 1991.  Now let’s turn our attention to the criminal docket – specifically, the Court’s decisions involving the elements of violent crimes.  The Court’s cases have been almost equally distributed by winner below – 49.47% of the Court’s cases

Yesterday, we looked at the Court’s history with workers compensation cases.  Today, we’re in the criminal docket, reviewing the Court’s history with cases involving the elements of violent crimes.  The Court has decided ninety-three such cases between 1991 and 2017.

The Court decided one such case in 1991, three in 1992, one in 1993, four

Yesterday, we reviewed in detail the Court’s domestic relations decisions since 1991.  Today, we’re on the criminal law side of the docket, looking at the Court’s juvenile justice decisions.

Overall, 56.94% of the Court’s juvenile justice decisions were won by the State below.  The reversal rate was almost identical, regardless of who won below –

Last week, we reviewed the yearly numbers for the Court’s domestic relations cases on the civil side and juvenile justice decisions from the criminal docket.  Today and tomorrow, we’re taking a closer look at those numbers.

In all, the Court has decided forty-two cases arising from domestic relations disputes.  We code as “conservative” decisions cases

For the past two weeks, we’ve been reviewing the Court’s history with insurance law cases on the civil side, and habeas corpus decisions on the criminal side.  This week and next, we’re looking at two new issues – on the civil docket, the Court’s history with domestic relations cases, and in the criminal docket, cases