Last week, we continued our analysis of the California Supreme Court’s death penalty docket, tracing the number of cases which the Court decides every year, the fraction of the docket that’s decided unanimously, and the frequency with which the Court reverses in part or outright. Today we turn our attention to a controversial topic: how
Yesterday, we began our review of the California Supreme Court’s death penalty docket, looking at both the number of cases the Court decides each year, and its usual unanimity rate. Today, we turn our attention to a new question: what’s the reversal rate?
We must begin by defining our terms. As we showed earlier, death
Last week, we completed our look at the Court’s majority opinions across the spectrum from civil to non-death criminal cases to the Court’s docket of mandatory death penalty appeals. With the constitutional challenge to the Proposition 66 death penalty referendum still pending before the California Supreme Court, let’s take a closer look at the Court’s
Yesterday, we looked at the distribution and average length of the Court’s majority opinions in criminal cases not involving the death penalty between 2008 and 2015. Today, we address the distribution of the Court’s most recent death penalty appeals.
Between 2008 and 2015, Justice Chin wrote the most majority opinions in death penalty cases with
For the past few weeks, we’ve been analyzing the distribution of majority opinions among the Justices in civil, criminal and death penalty cases, and which Justices tend to write the longest (and shortest) opinions. Today, we turn our attention to the Court’s criminal cases between 2008 and 2015. Once again, we omit the death penalty
Yesterday, we continued our analysis of the Court’s majority opinions, reviewing which Justices wrote most and least often for the Court in non-death criminal matters, and which tended to write the longest and shortest majority opinions for the years 2000-2007. Today, we turn our attention to the Court’s majority opinions in civil cases between 2008
Last week, we looked at the Justices’ majority opinions in civil and death penalty appeals between 2000 and 2007. Today, we turn our attention to majority opinions in criminal cases. Because death penalty majorities are nearly always considerably longer than non-death cases, we limit this part of our analysis to criminal cases not involving the
Yesterday, we analyzed the Justices’ history with majority opinions in civil cases between 2000 and 2007. Today, we turn our attention to the Court’s history with majority opinions in automatic death penalty appeals. We separate out death penalty appeals from criminal cases in general because majority opinions in death penalty cases are nearly always considerably
Last week, we concluded our analysis of the distribution of concurring opinions in civil and criminal cases. This week, we turn our attention to a new topic: the distribution and average length of the Court’s majority opinions. We begin today with civil opinions between 2000 and 2007.
Between 2000 and 2007, Justice Werdegar led the
Yesterday, we looked at which Justices have filed the most concurrences, year by year, in civil cases since 2008. Today, we turn our attention to the criminal side of the docket.
Despite having not joined the Court until the fall of 2011, there’s no question that Justice Liu files the most concurrences in criminal cases.