Yesterday, we began our review of the areas of law producing the California Supreme Court’s civil and criminal dockets between 2000 and 2002. Today, we address the civil docket for the years 2003 and 2004.
The data for 2003 is reported below in Table 51. Tort law cases were down significantly, but were still the
Last week, we wrapped up our detailed analysis of the originating jurisdictions for the California Supreme Court’s civil, criminal and automatic appeal death penalty dockets between 2000 and 2015. Today, we begin a new phase of our analysis – what areas of the law does the Court draw its docket from?
In Table 48 below,
Last week, we reviewed the primary theories of judicial decision making, including two – attitudinalism and legal realism – which are the foundation for empirical research into appellate decision making. Today, we begin our review of the data.
Between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2015, the California Supreme Court published 1,602 decisions – 636