Last time, we reviewed the Court’s oral arguments in criminal cases at the macro level – data on the whole court. This time, we’re going micro – what can we predict about individual Justices’ votes and writing based on the oral arguments?
In Table 1024, we report average questions per Justice in criminal cases. All
In our next two posts, we’re reviewing the data for the Court’s oral arguments in criminal cases during 2018.
In all, the Justices asked 1,103 questions of appellants and 896 of appellees.
That works out to 22.06 questions to the appellant, and 17.92 to the appellee.
We’ve shown before that most argument analytics studies have
Justices Cuellar and Liu were the most frequent questioners during civil cases in 2018. Justice Cuellar averaged 5.42 questions of appellants, 5.94 of appellees and 0.48 in rebuttals. Justice Liu averaged 4.33 of appellants, 6.15 of appellees and 1.24 in rebuttals. Justice Corrigan averaged 2.42 questions in appellants, 2.18 of appellees and 0.64 in rebuttals.
This time, we’re looking at the oral arguments in civil cases in 2018. For new readers, you can review the history of data analytics for oral arguments here.
For civil cases decided last year, the Court asked 958 questions of appellants and 889 of appellees – an average of 29.03 questions to appellants and
The Supreme Court decided thirty-nine government and administrative law cases between 2014 and 2019: three in 2014, eleven per year in 2015 and 2016, nine in 2017, five in 2018 and none so far in 2019.
The Court decided twenty-two cases between 2014 and 2019 which were won by the defender of government authority versus
Between 2006 and 2013, the Supreme Court decided forty-five cases involving government and administrative law issues: nine in 2006, ten in 2007, five in 2008, four in 2009, four in 2010, two in 2011, four in 2012 and seven in 2013.
The caseload leaned a little bit towards cases won by the defenders of government
The Court’s docket of cases involving government entities and government/administrative law was down significantly from sixty-nine between 1990 and 1997 to forty-four from 1998 to 2005. The Court decided four cases in 1998, five in 1999, seven in 2000, five in 2001, three in 2002, six in 2003, ten in 2004 and four in 2005.
This time, we’re turning our attention to a new area of the Court’s civil docket – cases involving the conduct, authority and procedures of government agencies and officers. For our purposes in this and the three posts following, we’re defining “government” parties as anyone whose claim or defense is based upon the powers or conduct
The Court has decided only three workers compensation cases since 2013 – two in 2015 and one in 2018.
Two of the Supreme Court’s three workers compensation cases were won by defendants at the Court of Appeal.
The two defendants who had won their cases at the Court of Appeal evenly split at the Supreme
The Court decided six workers compensation cases from 2006 to 2013 – two in 2007, one each in 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2013.
The Court’s light workers compensation docket consisted of four cases won by the plaintiffs below and only two involving defendants’ wins for these years.
Defendants who won Workers Compensation cases below won