Earlier this week, we began our review of the Illinois Supreme Court’s record with death penalty appeals between 1990 and the abolition of the death penalty in 2011. Today and tomorrow, we’re comparing the California Supreme Court’s data on death penalty cases.
In Table 276, we report the number of death penalty appeals the Court
Yesterday, we surveyed where the California Supreme Court’s certified question appeals arose. Today, we turn to a different question: what areas of law do the Court’s certified questions arise in?
We report the first third of the data in Table 258. The Court decided one case in employment law in 2000 and one each in
Last time, we looked at public entities’ winning percentage in civil cases at the California Supreme Court between 1994 and 2005. Today, we look at the second half of our study period – how did public entities fare between 2006 and 2016?
Public entities have done even better during these years than they had in
Last week, we looked at how defendants have fared in criminal cases. Of course, in a sense that amounts to asking how prosecutors are doing. So this week, we ask the flip side of that question – how have public entities fared in civil cases between 1994 and 2016?
In Table 225, we report the
Last week, we analyzed Justice Werdegar’s majority opinions in civil cases. This week, we’ll look at Justice Werdegar’s opinions in criminal cases.
We report Justice Werdegar’s majority opinions, year by year, in criminal cases in Table 202. Justice Werdegar’s high points have come in 1996, 2007 and 2008, with ten majority opinions each year. She
Our statistical retrospective of Justice Kathryn M. Werdegar’s tenure on the California Supreme Court continues today with an analysis of Justice Werdegar’s dissents and an analysis of the ideological distribution of Justice Werdegar’s majority opinions.
In Table 200 below, we report Justice Werdegar’s dissents divided by area of law. Justice Werdegar has written two dissents
Last week, we began our statistical retrospective of Justice Kathryn M. Werdegar’s twenty-three years on the California Supreme Court. Today, we further consider Justice Werdegar’s majority opinions and dissents in civil cases.
In Table 198, we once again report Justice Werdegar’s year-by-year majority opinions in civil cases. She wrote five majority opinions in 1995, four
Yesterday, we announced that we’ve expanded the data library which powers the California Supreme Court Review – by a lot. We’ve added many new data points for all the cases which were already in the database, as well as moving the start point of the library back to November 1, 1994 – just before Associate
Fifty weeks (and just over a hundred posts) ago, we started the California Supreme Court Review, applying statistical and data analytic techniques to studying the decision making of the California Supreme Court. Our analysis was based upon a data library which we created based on dozens of data points drawn from every one of the
Yesterday, we looked at how much correlation there was between result and lag times in death penalty appeals between 2008 and 2016. Today, we’re looking at the non-death penalty criminal docket for the same period.
We started this analysis because of the surprising results looking at civil versus criminal cases – affirmances took about 20