Last time, we began our in-depth review of the Court’s record in 1990 in tort cases. Today, we’re continuing that analysis.
Between 2000 and 2009, the Court’s tort docket continued to be mostly comprised of cases won by the plaintiffs below – 42 plaintiff wins, 33 defense wins. Although the two sides’ contributions were tied
Last week, we reviewed the data on how the Supreme Court has handled insurance law cases since 1990 – both what sorts of cases the Court decides, which side typically prevails, and the individual Justices’ voting records on insurance cases. This week (and next Thursday), we’ll be asking the same questions for the Court’s tort
Last time, we reviewed how the insurance industry has fared over the past twenty-nine years as a party to litigation at the California Supreme Court. This time, we’re turning to the voting records of individual Justices: irrespective of whether the insurer was plaintiff or defendant, whether the case involved coverage or liability issues, and whether
Late last week, we inaugurated a new biweekly series of posts on The Appellate Strategist analyzing the American Law Institute’s new Restatement of the Law of Liability Insurance. Since this week we’re beginning a new series taking a deep dive on the Court’s docket in various important areas of law, I thought we’d begin with
Today, we’re concluding our series of posts on agreement rates among the Justices with a look at the numbers for the years 2014 through 2018.
Justice Corrigan’s closest matches were two Justices who cast only a few votes in 2014 prior to retirement: Justices Kennard and Baxter, who were both at 100%. Justice Corrigan was
Today, we’re looking at the Justices’ agreement rates in divided criminal cases for the years 2008 through 2013. As we did on the civil side, since during this period the Court was drawing closer to having its current membership, we present the data Justice by Justice in order to facilitate comparisons.
Justice Corrigan’s closest match
Last time, we reviewed the Justices’ agreement rates in divided criminal cases – how many times did each possible combination of Justices vote the same way in criminal cases with at least one dissenter. This time, we’re looking at the years 2002 through 2007.
Justice Baxter’s agreement rate with Justice Moreno was 65.74%. He agreed
Today, we’re continuing our review of the Justices’ agreement rates in divided criminal cases, this time looking at the data for the years 1996 through 2001.
Justice Arabian had a 50% agreement rate with Justice Baxter, but 0% with Justice Mosk. Justice Baxter agreed with pro tem Justices half the time, but with Justice Mosk
For the past two weeks, we’ve been reviewing the Justices’ agreement rates in civil cases since 1990, six years at a time. Today, we’ve reached the final post in that five-post series, as we take a look at the Court’s past five years. One caution – Justice Kennard is the highest agreement rate with most
Following up on our five posts reviewing the Justices’ agreement rates in civil cases from 1990 to 2018, six years at a time, we now begin our trip through the criminal docket. Today: 1990 to 1995.
In Table 804, we report the first fourteen combinations. Three combinations had an agreement rate in the nineties –