Yesterday, we began our review of the distribution of the Court’s civil cases at the Districts (and Divisions) of the Court of Appeal, reviewing the data for the years 1994 through 1999. Today, we review the data for the years 2000 through 2005.
The Court heard a total of 45 cases from the First District.
Last week, we reviewed the government’s record in civil and criminal appeals. This week, we begin our review of which Districts of the Court of Appeal have produced the most civil cases each year.
Just as we did earlier this week in our study of the Illinois Supreme Court’s caseload, we use population distribution as
Reprinted with permission from the October 2017 issue of ALI CLE’s The Practical Lawyer.
“In God we trust. All others must bring data.”
— Professor William Edwards Deming
All of us who often speak and write about the ongoing revolution in data analytics for litigation have heard it from at least some of
Today, we conclude our series on the originating jurisdictions, year-by-year, of the Court’s civil docket.
In 2014, as usual, Los Angeles led, originating ten of the Court’s civil cases. Two cases between in Alameda County and the United States District Court for the Central District of California. One case apiece started in Riverside, Ventura, Tuolumne,
This week, we conclude our series of posts on the originating jurisdictions, year-by-year, of the California Supreme Court’s civil docket – not the first trial court, but the council, agency or department where the case began. Today, we look at the years 2011 through 2013.
As usual, in 2011, the Los Angeles County Superior Court
Today, we continue our ongoing series of posts about the originating jurisdictions of the California Supreme Court’s civil docket with the years 2009 and 2010.
The data for 2009 is reported in Table 242 below. That year, Los Angeles County originated twelve cases. San Diego originated five. Orange County produced four, San Francisco County three,
For the past two weeks, we’ve been reviewing the originating jurisdictions – not the first trial court, but the first authority, whether agency, council or board – for the California Supreme Court’s civil docket between 1994 and 2016. Today, we’ve reached 2006.
Table 239 reports the data for 2006. The Los Angeles Superior Court originated
Yesterday, we continued our review of the originating jurisdiction for the California Supreme Court’s civil docket – the original agency, department, council or court. Today, we continue our review.
In 2003, thirteen cases originated in Los Angeles County. Five began in San Francisco, three each in Santa Clara, Sacramento and San Bernardino county, and two
Last week, we reviewed the data on the originating jurisdictions of the California Supreme Court’s civil cases between 1995 and 1999. This week, we review the data from 2000 through 2005.
The Los Angeles Superior Court originated eighteen cases in 2000. The court heard six cases which arose from San Francisco, three from Santa Clara
Yesterday, we began our year-by-year review of where the Court’s civil cases have originated since 1994. By doing so, we can see trends in the administrative and executive agencies where the Court’s cases come from. Last time, we reviewed the data for 1994, 1995 and 1996. Today, we’re looking at the years 1997-1999.
For 1997,