Yesterday, we reviewed the year by year data on which trial courts produced the Court’s civil docket for the years 1999 through 2003. Today, we’re looking at the criminal docket.
In 1999, the Court decided nineteen criminal cases from Los Angeles County. The rest of the docket was quite spread out. The Court decided three
Last week, we began reviewing the trial courts from which the state Supreme Court’s civil and criminal dockets arise year by year, both here and over on our sister blog the Illinois Supreme Court Review. This week, we’re reviewing the data for the years 1999-2003 – first, the civil docket.
In 1999, as always,
Yesterday, we reviewed the counties which produced the Supreme Court’s civil docket for the years 1994 through 1998. Today, we’re reviewing the Court’s criminal docket for the same years.
In 1994, the Court decided nine criminal cases from Los Angeles. The Court decided six cases from San Diego, three from Orange, Riverside and Santa Clara
Last week, we completed our review of the government’s winning percentage in civil cases between 1994 and the present. This week, we’re beginning a new subject – which trial courts accounted for the Court’s civil and criminal dockets? First up: the civil docket for the years 1994 through 1998.
In 1994, the Court decided fifteen
Last time, we reviewed the areas of the law which governmental entities appealed between 2006 and 2012. Today, we complete the cycle, reviewing the years 2013 through 2016.
The most striking thing about the Court’s civil docket between 2013 and 2016 as it relates to governmental entity appellants is just how few of them there
Last week, we reviewed the year-by-year data for the areas of law in which the government has appealed from 1990 through 2005. Today, we address the record for the years 2006 through 2012.
Surprisingly, the leading area of law for the court’s governmental entity cases between 2006 and 2012 was environmental law at 12 cases.
Yesterday, we began reviewing the areas of law in which government entities have pursued civil appeals since 1994. Today, we’re addressing the years 2000 through 2005.
Like our previous period, constitutional law and government and administrative law cases dominated the docket of cases appealed by government entities. Government entities appealed eighteen constitutional law cases, a
Yesterday, we discussed which Districts and Divisions of the Court of Appeal produced the Supreme Court’s criminal docket for the years 2006 through 2011. Today, we finish the story, reviewing the years 2012 through 2017 (year-to-date).
Only twenty of the Court’s 311 criminal cases for the years 2012 through 2017 originated in the First District.
Last week, we began analyzing how the Supreme Court’s criminal docket since 1994 has been distributed among the Districts and Divisions of the Court of Appeal. Today, we address the years 2006 through 2011.
Only 6.87% of the Court’s criminal cases arose from the First District in the years 2006 through 2011 – 25 of
Yesterday, we began our review of the origins in the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court’s criminal docket. Today, we continue with the years 2000 through 2005.
The Court decided thirty-four cases from the First District during these six years. Cases from Division One were few and far between – one each from 2000,