For the past two weeks, we’ve been reviewing the Court’s government and administrative law cases on the civil side and sentencing law cases on the criminal docket. This week and next, we’re looking at the Court’s insurance law and habeas corpus cases.
Between 1991 and 2017, the Court decided seventy-three insurance law cases. In 1991,
Yesterday, we reviewed the Court’s record with civil cases involving governmental parties and administrative law. Today, we’re on the criminal law side of the docket, reviewing the Court’s experience with cases involving criminal sentencing.
Not surprisingly (given the percentage of criminal law appellate decisions won by the government), the Court has heard more prosecution wins
Last week, we reviewed the Court’s history since 1992 with government and administrative law cases on the civil side, and sentencing law cases on the criminal docket. This week, we’re looking at three questions: (1) does the Court tend to take more cases in each area won by one side or the other below; (2)
Yesterday, we reviewed the Court’s record with civil cases involving governmental parties and administrative law. Today, we’re looking at the Court’s decisions involving the law of criminal sentencing.
The Court decided one sentencing law case in 1992, ten in 1993, two in 1994, eight in 1995 and seven in 1996.
The Court decided nine cases
For the past two weeks, we’ve been looking at the Court’s record with death penalty cases. This week and next, we’re turning our attention to the court’s civil cases involving governmental parties and administrative law, and on the criminal side, sentencing law cases. Let’s start with government/administrative law cases.
The Court decided eleven government cases
[The posts for yesterday and today are cross-posted, in slightly revised form, from the Illinois Supreme Court Review.]
Yesterday, we compared the California and Illinois Supreme Court’s death penalty case loads between 1992, the beginning of our California data, through 2010, when Illinois abolished the death penalty. We found that in the years
[The posts for today and tomorrow are cross-posted, in slightly revised form, from the Illinois Supreme Court Review.]
For the past two weeks, we’ve been taking a detailed look at the death penalty jurisprudence of the California Supreme Court and, at our sister blog the Illinois Supreme Court Review, the Illinois Supreme Court.
Last time, we took a deeper look at the Court’s experience since 1992 with tort law cases on the civil side. Today (and next week), we’ll be taking a further look at the death penalty decisions, tracking four variables: (1) total decisions; (2) complete reversals; (3) partial reversals overturning the death penalty (ARL in the
Last week, we reviewed the year-by-year numbers for the Court’s tort law caseload. This week, we’re taking a closer look at the Court’s tort decisions to answer three questions: (1) did the Court hear more defendants’ wins or plaintiffs’ wins from the Court of Appeal on the tort caseload; (2) did the Court tend to
Yesterday, we looked at the Court’s year by year caseload in one of the most commonplace areas of law on the civil docket – tort. Today, we’re looking at the death penalty caseload. From 1992 to the end of 2017, the Court has decided 470 death penalty cases.
The Court decided thirty-three death penalty cases