This time, we’re reviewing the average votes to affirm each District and Division of the Court of Appeal in non-unanimous cases.
In 1990, Division One of the First District averaged four votes to affirm. In 1991, Division Four of the First averaged six votes. In 1992, Division Three of the First and Division Four of
This week, we’re beginning a detailed analysis of the votes to affirm each Division and District of the Court of Appeal: (1) how often is each court affirmed unanimously; and (2) what was the average votes to affirm each Court, year by year?
In Table 1514, we report the first half of the Districts’ percentage
This week, we’re concluding our three-week multi-part post on the originating jurisdictions for the California Supreme Court’s civil and criminal cases between 1990 and 2020. In this post, we’re finishing the civil side of the docket, reviewing the years 2010 to 2020.
As usual, we omit the leading jurisdiction, Los Angeles County, from the Table
Between 2000 and 2009, the California Supreme Court decided 617 criminal, quasi-criminal and juvenile justice cases. Los Angeles County accounted for 188 of those cases. Orange County was second, followed by San Diego, Santa Clara, Alameda, Riverside and Sacramento counties.
Twenty additional jurisdictions which produced more than one case apiece during these years are reported
Today, we’re reporting the originating jurisdictions for the Supreme Court between the years 2000 and 2009. We omit Los Angeles County from the Table to make it more easily readable. Los Angeles County accounted for 147 civil cases between 2000 and 2009.
San Francisco County was twelfth in population but second in criminal cases. Next
In Table 1496, we report the jurisdictions where the Court’s criminal cases originated between 1990 and 1999. Los Angeles County accounted for 111 cases. The State Bar Court was next, followed by Orange County, the third most populous county in the state. Santa Clara County, the sixth most populous county, was next followed by San
This week, we’re reviewing the jurisdictions in which the Supreme Court’s civil and criminal dockets originated for the years 1990 through 1999. As we said earlier on the Illinois Supreme Court Review, this is important for the same reason that tracking which Districts and Divisions of the Court of Appeal the Court is taking its
Today, we’re reviewing the contents of our database, which includes every case decided by the California Supreme Court since January 8, 1990. For every case, we’ve captured the following data points:
CIVIL CASES:
Official Reporter Citation
California Reporter Citation
Docket Number
Case Name
Petitioner
Petitioner Governmental Entity (Y/N)
Respondent Governmental Entity (Y/N)
Source of Appellate
Today, we’re dissecting the reversal rate in criminal cases from Division 1 of the Second District. The following areas of law were the biggest players on the criminal docket in terms of cases which went to the Supreme Court: constitutional law (23.53%); criminal procedure (20.59%); sentencing (14.71%); and violent crimes (11.76%).
The overall reversal rate
The last couple of weeks, we’ve looked at reversal rates for the Court of Appeal in cases at the Supreme Court. But the difficulty which few people talk about is that reversal rates are nearly always a composite statistic – either “all cases,” or at most all civil cases or all criminal. But mathematically, a