A few posts ago, I noted that analytics research has demonstrated a correlation between the length of majority opinions and the rate of unanimous opinions – shorter opinions, more unanimity; longer opinions and less unanimity. So what happened for civil cases between 1990 and 1999?
As we noted a few posts ago, majority opinions were
Today, we’re reviewing the Supreme Court’s criminal docket during the 1990s – were total caseloads declining and was the Court writing longer opinions?
For the decade, the Court decided 523 criminal cases. The Court filed 17,588 pages of majority opinion, and average of 33.63 pages per case – half again longer than the average civil
This week, we begin our look at the impact of declining Court of Appeal caseloads on the work of the Supreme Court.
We’ll be reviewing three questions in order to analyze the impact of the slow decline in cases at the Court of Appeal: (1) did the Supreme Court’s caseload decline? (2) Was the Supreme
The sharpest decline in original proceedings between 2011 and 2021 was in the Fourth District – 41.43%. The Fifth District was second, declining 39.06%. New filings in the Third District were down 38.43%. New original proceedings are down in the First District by 31.52%. New filings were down 26.03% in the Sixth District. The smallest
This week, we’re wrapping up our review of the Court of Appeal’s dockets over the past twenty years, tracking the declines in the court’s docket.
The steepest decline across the eleven years occurred in the Third District, where new notices of appeal declined by 27.43%. Next was the Sixth District, which declined by 24.37%. Dockets
Today, we’re reviewing the data for new original proceedings – petitions for writ of mandate, mandamus and the like – between 2001 and 2010. With the exception of the Fifth District, which saw a 24% increase in original proceedings, the remaining Courts of Appeal saw relatively flat numbers in original proceedings.
The First District began
This time we’re reviewing the data for new Notices of Appeal in the Court of Appeal for the years 2001 through 2010, tracking the decline in appellate dockets and assessing the impact on the Supreme Court’s work.
Across the decade, the biggest declines in caseload were in the First and Second Districts, followed by the
This is part 2 in a series of posts reviewing the dockets at the Court of Appeal for the past thirty-plus years and their impact on the work of the Supreme Court. This time, we review the data for newly filed original writ proceedings.
We showed last time that Notices of Appeal declined between 1996
Today we’re beginning a series of posts examining the declining dockets at the Court of Appeal and assessing the impact on the Supreme Court’s work.
Below, we report the District-by-District new Notices of Appeal numbers (civil, criminal and juvenile) for the years 1996 through 2000. All data comes from the California Courts Court Statistics Reports,
Turning finally to the Sixth District, according to the 2020 census, Santa Clara County was 73.17% of the population. Monterey County accounted for 16.59% of the population among the three counties contributing cases to the docket and Santa Cruz was 10.24%.
Santa Clara County had cases on the Supreme Court’s civil docket in seven of