Yesterday, for post no. 1,000 we reviewed the academic literature on question-counting in oral arguments, and began comparing the past year, May 2016-May 2017, at the California and Illinois Supreme Courts. Every researcher to date – including us in our study of the Illinois Supreme Court 2008-2016 – found that getting more questions than your
Today marks the milestone of my 1,000th blog post since Appellate Strategist began publishing on February 23, 2010.
I thought we’d do a first today: comparing the two Supreme Courts we study in the same post. Specifically, since I’ve had the honor of appearing at both the California and Illinois Supreme Courts, I thought
Last week, I was looking at our archives, pulling up old research, and I stumbled onto this two-year old post – my 500th on Appellate Strategist. Now that our other two blogs, Illinois Supreme Court Review and California Supreme Court Review, have been publishing for a while, I decided to check the dashboards there
Today, we conclude our series on the originating jurisdictions, year-by-year, of the Court’s civil docket.
In 2014, as usual, Los Angeles led, originating ten of the Court’s civil cases. Two cases between in Alameda County and the United States District Court for the Central District of California. One case apiece started in Riverside, Ventura, Tuolumne,
This week, we conclude our series of posts on the originating jurisdictions, year-by-year, of the California Supreme Court’s civil docket – not the first trial court, but the council, agency or department where the case began. Today, we look at the years 2011 through 2013.
As usual, in 2011, the Los Angeles County Superior Court
Today, we continue our ongoing series of posts about the originating jurisdictions of the California Supreme Court’s civil docket with the years 2009 and 2010.
The data for 2009 is reported in Table 242 below. That year, Los Angeles County originated twelve cases. San Diego originated five. Orange County produced four, San Francisco County three,
For the past two weeks, we’ve been reviewing the originating jurisdictions – not the first trial court, but the first authority, whether agency, council or board – for the California Supreme Court’s civil docket between 1994 and 2016. Today, we’ve reached 2006.
Table 239 reports the data for 2006. The Los Angeles Superior Court originated
Yesterday, we continued our review of the originating jurisdiction for the California Supreme Court’s civil docket – the original agency, department, council or court. Today, we continue our review.
In 2003, thirteen cases originated in Los Angeles County. Five began in San Francisco, three each in Santa Clara, Sacramento and San Bernardino county, and two
Last week, we reviewed the data on the originating jurisdictions of the California Supreme Court’s civil cases between 1995 and 1999. This week, we review the data from 2000 through 2005.
The Los Angeles Superior Court originated eighteen cases in 2000. The court heard six cases which arose from San Francisco, three from Santa Clara
Yesterday, we began our year-by-year review of where the Court’s civil cases have originated since 1994. By doing so, we can see trends in the administrative and executive agencies where the Court’s cases come from. Last time, we reviewed the data for 1994, 1995 and 1996. Today, we’re looking at the years 1997-1999.
For 1997,