For the past two weeks, we’ve been taking a detailed look at the Supreme Court’s caseload of civil and criminal procedure decisions. This week and next, we’re looking at the Court’s tort cases on the civil side and reviewing the death penalty decisions on the criminal side.
Between 1992 and the end of 2017, the
Yesterday, we examined the nature of the civil procedure cases the Court has taken since 1992, and the Court’s reversal rates in each category. Today, we’re looking at the Court’s criminal procedure decisions.
Overall, the Court has taken somewhat more cases which the prosecution won below than defendants’ wins – 138 to 115. The Court
Last week, we reviewed the year-by-year data on the Court’s docket of civil and criminal procedure cases. This week, we’re taking a more detailed look at those numbers to answer the same questions we addressed a few weeks ago in the context of constitutional law: (1) does the Court take more plaintiffs’ or defense wins
Yesterday, we began our examination of the Court’s civil procedure decisions. Today, we’re looking at the flip side – the Court’s 252 criminal procedure cases.
The Court decided 7 criminal procedure cases in 1992, 9 cases in 1993, 13 cases in 1994, 9 cases in 1995, 11 cases in 1996 and 6 cases in 1997.
For the past two weeks, we’ve been reviewing in detail the Court’s constitutional law decisions on both the civil and criminal law side. This week and next, we’re looking at one of the Court’s next most common types of cases – civil and criminal procedure decisions. Between 1992 and 2017, the Court decided 170 cases
This week, we’re taking a closer look at what kinds of cases wind up in the Court’s constitutional law docket, and whether the Court is more or less likely to reverse depending on who won below. Today, we’re reviewing the numbers for the criminal docket.
Yesterday, we showed that the Court has taken roughly equal
Last week, we tracked the Court’s yearly caseload in constitutional law on both the civil and criminal dockets. This week, we’re digging deeper to answer three questions: (1) does the Court tend to take more conservative or liberal decisions from the Court of Appeal involving constitutional law issues; (2) is the Court more (or less)
Yesterday, we began a review of the Court’s constitutional law caseload on the civil side of the docket. Today, we begin our review of the Court’s criminal constitutional law cases.
The Court decided four criminal cases in 1992 which principally involved constitutional law issues. The Court decided three cases in 1993, five in 1994 and
Earlier this week at the Illinois Supreme Court Review, we began an intensive review of the Court’s caseload, one area of law at a time. We began with the area of law most closely identified with courts of last resort – constitutional law. Let’s start our review of the Court’s decisions with the civil
For the past two weeks, we’ve been reviewing the government’s winning percentage as appellant in civil appeals at the California Supreme Court, year by year and by area of law. Today, we complete our survey, looking at the years 2013 through 2016.
Government appeals were not only a bit less common during these years than