Last week, we reviewed the year-by-year data since 1994 for amicus briefs, looking at whether more amici tend to support the petitioner or the respondent. This week, we’re looking at the Court’s experience with amicus briefs in criminal cases.
The primary lesson of the data is the obvious one: amicus briefs are far less commonplace
Yesterday, we looked at the year-by-year data in civil cases, dividing total amicus briefs up by the side supported – petitioner, respondent, and neither side/can’t determine. We discovered that three quarters of the time between 1994 and 2005, the petitioner averaged more amicus briefs than the respondent. So what about the second half of the
For the past several weeks, we’ve been reviewing the Supreme Court tenure of soon-to-retire Justice Kathryn Werdegar. This week, we begin a new topic. Several weeks ago, we tracked the average number of amicus briefs filed, case by case, from year to year. But with the expansion of our data library, we can now track
Last week, we continued our analysis of Justice Werdegar’s career by reviewing her majority opinions in criminal cases.
We report Justice Werdegar’s dissents in criminal cases, year by year, in Table 204. Justice Werdegar wrote two dissents in 1995, five in 1997, three in 1998, two in 1999 and three in 2000. Justice Werdegar wrote
Last week, we analyzed Justice Werdegar’s majority opinions in civil cases. This week, we’ll look at Justice Werdegar’s opinions in criminal cases.
We report Justice Werdegar’s majority opinions, year by year, in criminal cases in Table 202. Justice Werdegar’s high points have come in 1996, 2007 and 2008, with ten majority opinions each year. She
Our statistical retrospective of Justice Kathryn M. Werdegar’s tenure on the California Supreme Court continues today with an analysis of Justice Werdegar’s dissents and an analysis of the ideological distribution of Justice Werdegar’s majority opinions.
In Table 200 below, we report Justice Werdegar’s dissents divided by area of law. Justice Werdegar has written two dissents
Last week, we began our statistical retrospective of Justice Kathryn M. Werdegar’s twenty-three years on the California Supreme Court. Today, we further consider Justice Werdegar’s majority opinions and dissents in civil cases.
In Table 198, we once again report Justice Werdegar’s year-by-year majority opinions in civil cases. She wrote five majority opinions in 1995, four
Yesterday, we began our retrospective of the tenure of Justice Kathryn M. Werdegar, who will retire on August 31, 2017. We tracked the total number of cases, both civil and criminal, in which Justice Werdegar has participated, as well as looking at how frequently she filed opinions – majorities, concurrences and dissents – from year
Early last month, Justice Kathryn M. Werdegar announced that she will retire from the California Supreme Court, effective August 31, 2017. Justice Werdegar’s retirement caps a distinguished twenty-three year career on the Supreme Court. Prior to her elevation to the Supreme Court, Justice Werdegar served as as Associate Justice on the California Court of Appeal,
Yesterday, we announced that we’ve expanded the data library which powers the California Supreme Court Review – by a lot. We’ve added many new data points for all the cases which were already in the database, as well as moving the start point of the library back to November 1, 1994 – just before Associate