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
Yesterday, we reviewed the variables which make up our sixteen year database. Today, we turn to our first question – comparing the jurisdictional sources of the California Supreme Court’s civil and criminal dockets.
We report the breakdown for the civil docket in 2000 in Table 2 below. Final judgments appealed under C.C.P. 904.1(a)(1) comprised 77.55%