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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.

Last week, we reviewed the year-by-year numbers for the Court’s tort law caseload.  This week, we’re taking a closer look at the Court’s tort decisions to answer three questions: (1) did the Court hear more defendants’ wins or plaintiffs’ wins from the Court of Appeal on the tort caseload; (2) did the Court tend to

Yesterday, we looked at the Court’s year by year caseload in one of the most commonplace areas of law on the civil docket – tort.  Today, we’re looking at the death penalty caseload.  From 1992 to the end of 2017, the Court has decided 470 death penalty cases.

The Court decided thirty-three death penalty cases

For the past two weeks, we’ve been taking a detailed look at the Supreme Court’s caseload of civil and criminal procedure decisions.  This week and next, we’re looking at the Court’s tort cases on the civil side and reviewing the death penalty decisions on the criminal side.

Between 1992 and the end of 2017, the

For the past two weeks, we’ve been reviewing in detail the Court’s constitutional law decisions on both the civil and criminal law side.  This week and next, we’re looking at one of the Court’s next most common types of cases – civil and criminal procedure decisions.  Between 1992 and 2017, the Court decided 170 cases

Last week, we tracked the Court’s yearly caseload in constitutional law on both the civil and criminal dockets.  This week, we’re digging deeper to answer three questions: (1) does the Court tend to take more conservative or liberal decisions from the Court of Appeal involving constitutional law issues; (2) is the Court more (or less)

Yesterday, we began a review of the Court’s constitutional law caseload on the civil side of the docket.  Today, we begin our review of the Court’s criminal constitutional law cases.

The Court decided four criminal cases in 1992 which principally involved constitutional law issues.  The Court decided three cases in 1993, five in 1994 and