Last week, we asked how often the California Supreme Court reviews unpublished decisions on both the civil and criminal dockets. Today, we move to two new questions: how often are the Court’s decisions unanimous, and how often is the Court closely divided?
In Table 88, we report the share of the Court’s civil decisions which
Yesterday, we began our analysis of a new question: how much of the California Supreme Court’s civil and criminal dockets arises from unpublished Court of Appeal decisions? Today, we turn our attention to the Court’s criminal docket (omitting the automatic death penalty appeals).
Unpublished decisions are significantly more common on the criminal docket than they
Last week, we analyzed the conventional wisdom that the California Supreme Court doesn’t review unanimous decisions from the Court of Appeal. This week, we review a related question. The conventional wisdom is that the Court doesn’t review unpublished decisions – but is it true?
We report the data for civil cases in Table 86 below,
Yesterday, we analyzed whether there is a consistent, predictable relationship between dissent at the Court of Appeal and the result in civil cases at the California Supreme Court. Today, we turn our attention to the criminal docket.
The data is reported in Table 85 below. Interestingly, although the notion that a dissent at the Court
This week, we’re looking at a new topic in our continuing analysis of the California Supreme Court’s decision making since 2000: how high a fraction of the Court’s civil docket involved a dissent at the Court of Appeal, and what predictive value does a dissent at the Court of Appeal have for the result at
Today, we conclude our analysis of the areas of law comprising the California Supreme Court’s criminal docket.
In Table 82 below, we report the numbers of cases falling in each area of law from 2000 to 2015. Automatic death penalty appeals accounted for 331 of the Court’s 969 criminal cases. The Court decided 154 criminal
For the past six weeks, we’ve been analyzing the year-by-year evolution of the areas of law covered by the California Supreme Court’s civil and criminal dockets. I once read a quote from an appellate judge who commented that every jurisdiction completely restates its law every twenty years. Since our data library covers nearly that long
Today, we conclude our review of the areas of law which the California Supreme Court draws its civil and criminal dockets from with a look at the Court’s criminal docket over the past three years.
In 2013, automatic death penalty appeals accounted for 35.29% of the criminal docket. As always, the next most frequent area
For the past several weeks, we’ve been reviewing the areas of law from which the California Supreme Court has drawn its civil and criminal docket in the years since 2000. Today and tomorrow, we’ll address the criminal docket in the years 2010 through 2015.
In Table 74 below, we report the breakdown for the Supreme
Today, we wrap up our analysis of the areas of law which have comprised the California Supreme Court’s civil docket over the past sixteen years, focusing on the civil docket for the years 2013 through 2015.
Government and administrative law jumped to the top spot in the civil docket for 2013, accounting for 18.92% of