This week, we’re reviewing data for civil cases between 2000 and 2009, looking at two questions: are amicus briefs supporting appellants or respondents more often on the winning side; and in which areas of law do appellants’ and respondents’ amici have the best (and worst) winning percentages?
For the years 2000 through 2009, 951 amicus
Between 1990 and 1999, appellants’ amici filed 148 briefs and were on the winning side 73 times – a winning percentage of 49.32%. Respondents’ amici filed 105 briefs, winning in 60 cases – a winning percentage of 57.14%.
Appellants’ amici in sentencing law cases won 82.61% of the time. Appellants’ amici in in juvenile issues
This week, we’re reviewing amici’s winning percentage by area of law for the years 1990 through 1999.
Overall, amici supporting appellants won 444 of 699 cases during the 1990s for a winning percentage of 63.52%. Respondents won 230 of 547 cases for a winning percentage of 42.05%.
Amici supporting appellants in arbitration cases were undefeated
Today, we’re wrapping up this phase of our review of the data on amicus briefs, looking at the criminal docket for the years 2010 through 2020.
For the past eleven years, constitutional law has drawn more amicus briefs than any other area of criminal law – 30 cases in all. Criminal procedure is right behind,
Today, we’re concluding the latest stage of our analysis of the data on amicus briefs, reviewing two issues: (1) which areas of law attracted the most amicus briefs; and (2) were most amicus briefs offensive – attacking a Court of Appeal decision – or defensive – defending the Court of Appeal decision – in each
Last week, we showed that the most frequent area of criminal law for amicus briefs in California between 1990 and 1999 was criminal procedure (by a two-to-one margin). Following crim pro were constitutional law, sentencing law, juvenile issues and death penalty cases. So this week, we’re looking at the years 2000 through 2009.
Once again,
This week, we’re in part two of the latest phase of our amicus deep dive, reviewing two questions: (1) given that California sees more amicus briefs than any state court of last resort in the country, what areas of law are drawing the most activity; and (2) reviewing each area of law we identify, are
Today, we’re reviewing two issues on the criminal side of the docket – what areas of law produced the most amicus briefs and were more amicus briefs offensive – supporting the appellant and attacking the Court of Appeal decision – or defensive, supporting the respondent. We begin with the 1990s.
Constitutional law was the leading
This week, we’re continuing our look at the amicus brief data with two questions: (1) given how common amicus briefs are at the California Supreme Court, are briefs clustered more in cases involving certain areas of law than others; and (2) are more amicus briefs filed in California offensive – attacking an adverse Court of
With few exceptions, it’s remained true since 2005 that somewhere between one in four and one in five criminal cases at the California Supreme Court have at least one amicus brief. In 2005, 22.95% of the cases had one. That rose to 24.59% in 2009 and 24.68% in 2012. The percentage dropped off a bit