Last week, we concluded our look at the geographical sources of the California Supreme Court’s docket between 2000 and 2004 and addressed the civil docket between 2005 and 2009. This week, we address the criminal and death penalty dockets during the years 2005 through 2009.
Los Angeles once again dominated the criminal docket, producing 24
Last week, we began our analysis of the geographical sources of the California Supreme Court’s docket with a close look at the civil and criminal dockets. Today, we begin our review of the next five years in our period of study, 2005 to 2009, with a look at the civil docket. Since the civil docket
Last week, we began our review of the originating jurisdiction for the California Supreme Court’s docket since 2000 with a look at the civil and criminal dockets between 2000 and 2004. We discovered that while Los Angeles County, the largest county in the state in terms of population, dominates both the criminal and civil docket,
Yesterday, we began our consideration of a new issue, reviewing the originating jurisdictions for the Court’s civil docket between 2000 and 2004. We showed that with the exception of Los Angeles leading the way, there seemed to be relatively little relationship between the Court’s docket and population. Today, we consider the Court’s criminal, quasi-criminal, juvenile
Last week, we concluded our review of the jurisdictional sources of the California Supreme Court’s civil and criminal dockets. Today, we turn to a new question: where do the Court’s dockets come from geographically? As we discussed a few weeks ago, one of the variables tracked in our databases is the originating jurisdiction for every
Today, we conclude our review of the jurisdictional sources of the California Supreme Court’s docket by taking a look at the criminal docket between 2011 and 2015.
Final judgments historically amount to a somewhat lower fraction of the criminal docket than they do on the civil docket. They dropped to a particularly low level in
For the past two weeks, we’ve been taking our first look at the composition of the California Supreme Court’s civil and criminal dockets, reviewing the sources of appellate jurisdiction from which the Court’s cases are drawn. Today, we begin the final week of our analysis, covering the years 2011 to 2015.
Final judgments were a
Yesterday, we continued our analysis of the civil and criminal dockets at the California Supreme Court over the past sixteen years with a look at the jurisdictional sources of the civil docket between 2006 and 2010. Today, we turn to the criminal docket during those same years.
As we showed last week, review of final
Last week, we began our analysis of the civil and criminal dockets at the California Supreme Court with the years 2000 through 2005. Today, we take a look at the civil cases the Court decided between 2006 and 2010.
Final judgments declined somewhat as a percentage of the civil caseload in 2006 at 50.94% of
Earlier today, we addressed the jurisdictional sources of the California Supreme Court’s civil docket for the first six years of our period of study, 2000-2005. Now, we turn to the criminal docket for those same years.
Largely because of the mandatory death penalty docket, final judgments are routinely a smaller fraction of the Court’s criminal