Reprinted with permission from the October 2017 issue of ALI CLE’s The Practical Lawyer.
Cross-posted from the Illinois Supreme Court Review.
“In God we trust. All others must bring data.”
— Professor William Edwards Deming
All of us who often speak and write about the ongoing revolution in data analytics for litigation have heard
The Court decided five tort cases from the First District between 2010 and 2020 – one from Division Three, four from Division Four and one from Division Five. The Court decided 22 cases from the Second District. There were four cases from Division One, three each from Division Three and Division Four, seven from Division
The reversal rate for tort cases in 2010 was 50%. In 2011 and 2012, all tort cases were reversed. In 2013, no tort decisions were reversed. In 2014, the reversal rate was 50%. In 2015, the rate dropped to zero. The reversal rate was 57.14% in 2016, 33.33% in 2017 and 60% in 2018. All
This time, we’re tracing the California Supreme Court’s tort docket by Districts of the Court of Appeal for the years 2000 through 2009. During the decade, the Second District had 26 tort cases on the Supreme Court’s docket – 1 from Division One, 2 from Division Two, 7 from Division 3, 3 from Division 4,
This time, we’re reviewing the data on the Court’s tort docket for the years 2000 through 2009.
The Court’s overall reversal rate in tort cases was down somewhat from the nineties. Only 50% of the tort cases in 2000 were reversed. The reversal rate was down to 44.44% in 2001 and 42.86% in 2002. It
Let’s wind down the week with a look at where the Court’s tort cases originated between 1990 and 1999, and what the reversal rate from each District was.
The Court decided 18 tort cases from San Francisco’s First District – two from Division One, six from Division Two, three from Division Three, five from Division
For the next few weeks, we’ll be taking a deep dive on the Supreme Court’s tort cases. To begin, we’ll consider whether there is any relationship between the party which won at the Court of Appeal and the result at the Supreme Court in tort cases for the years 1990 through 1999.
We begin with
On Thursday, September 16, Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar announced he will be leaving the Court effective Friday, October 29, to become President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye said in a statement that Justice Cuéllar’s “legal intellect, academic training, and life experiences brought an essential perspective to California’s highest court.” See
As shown in Table 1591, the percentage of the Court’s criminal docket accounted for by final judgments and death penalty appeals remained quite high throughout the years 2010-2020. In 2010, 60.27% of the docket was either from final judgments or death cases. That rose into the seventies from 2011 to 2013 before falling back a
For the past two weeks, we’ve been comparing the data for appeals from final judgments to the Court’s total caseload, addressing the notion that the Court is reluctant to get involved in cases which have not yet reached final judgment. This time, we’re looking at the civil docket for the years 2010 through 2020.
The