Last week, we began another phase of our analysis of the standing of the Courts of Appeal in the California Supreme Court’s decision making, calculating three-year floating average votes to affirm each District of the Court of Appeal in civil and criminal cases. Today, we begin the second half of that analysis with the civil
Yesterday, we turned our attention to the average votes to affirm in civil cases the Districts of the Court of Appeal in civil cases at the California Supreme Court between 2000 and 2007. Today, we address the average votes to affirm on the criminal side of the docket during those same years.
Not surprisingly, most
Last week, we completed our analysis of the reversal rates of each District and Division of the Court of Appeal. Today, we begin our analysis of a related question: which Districts and Divisions have averaged the most votes to affirm the Court of Appeal’s decision each year? Obviously, there’s a big difference between Districts which
Today, we complete our two-week review of the reversal rates of the Districts and Divisions of the Courts of Appeal in civil and criminal cases between 2000 and 2015.
The Court has heard only two criminal cases from Division One of the First District between 2008 and 2015. Both were affirmed. Division Two of the
Last week, we began reviewing the reversal rate of each District (and Division) of the Courts of Appeal in civil and criminal cases. We began with the years 2000 through 2007. This week, we analyze the data for the years 2008 through 2015.
Division One of the First District has fared quite well for the
Yesterday, we addressed the District-by-District three-year floating reversal rates in civil cases in the Courts of Appeal from 2002 through 2007. Today we turn our attention to the performance of the Courts of Appeal in criminal cases.
Division Two of the First District improved its performance consistently through these years – from one-quarter affirmance in
Last week, we finished reviewing the voting patterns of the California Supreme Court in automatic death penalty appeals – how often was the Court’s decision unanimous, and how often did the Court have zero and one dissenter? This week, we turn to the District-by-District reversal rates of the Courts of Appeal.
Because the districts of
Yesterday, we began our analysis of a new question: how much of the California Supreme Court’s civil and criminal dockets arises from unpublished Court of Appeal decisions? Today, we turn our attention to the Court’s criminal docket (omitting the automatic death penalty appeals).
Unpublished decisions are significantly more common on the criminal docket than they
Last week, we analyzed the conventional wisdom that the California Supreme Court doesn’t review unanimous decisions from the Court of Appeal. This week, we review a related question. The conventional wisdom is that the Court doesn’t review unpublished decisions – but is it true?
We report the data for civil cases in Table 86 below,
Yesterday, we analyzed whether there is a consistent, predictable relationship between dissent at the Court of Appeal and the result in civil cases at the California Supreme Court. Today, we turn our attention to the criminal docket.
The data is reported in Table 85 below. Interestingly, although the notion that a dissent at the Court