In our last post, we reviewed the accuracy of the often-heard suggestion that the Supreme Court only hears cases which drew a dissent at the Court of Appeal. We discovered that with only a few exceptions, in the typical year only ten to twenty percent of the Court’s civil cases involved a dissent at the
One of the enduring bits of conventional wisdom that one often hears about California appellate law is that there is no point in seeking Supreme Court review when a case failed to even garner a dissent at the Court of Appeal. So – how much of the Court’s civil docket, year by year, consisted of
In our last post, we looked at the originating trial courts for the Supreme Court’s civil docket for the years 2009 through 2013. With this post, we’re looking at the Court’s criminal docket for the same years.
In 2009, the Court decided a dozen criminal cases from Los Angeles. The Court decided five cases from
For the past two weeks, we’ve been reviewing the government’s winning percentage as appellant in civil appeals at the California Supreme Court, year by year and by area of law. Today, we complete our survey, looking at the years 2013 through 2016.
Government appeals were not only a bit less common during these years than
Last week, we began reviewing the winning percentage in civil cases of governmental entity appellants, year by year and one area of law at a time. We began with the years 1994 through 2005. This week, we’re reviewing the most recent years, starting today with the data for the years 2006 through 2012.
Overall for
Yesterday, we reviewed governmental entities’ winning percentage, year by year and area of law by area of civil law, for the years 1994 through 1999. Today, we turn our attention to the years 2000 through 2005.
The government won both of its two cases arising in government and administrative law in 2000, and its one
For the past few weeks, we’ve been studying appeals brought to the California Supreme Court by governmental entities – specifically, which areas do governmental entities tend to most often appeal in civil cases? This week, we begin our look at the natural follow-up question: how often do governmental entities win those appeals?
We begin with
Yesterday, we reviewed the year-by-year data on the State’s appearances as appellant and respondent in criminal cases from 1994 to 2016. Today, we review the State’s winning percentage in each role.
The State won 80.95% of its cases as petition in 1994, 93.75% in 1995, 64.29% in 1996 and 88.89% in 1997. The State won
Last week, we reviewed how often public entities appeared as appellant and respondent in civil cases, and how often the public entities prevailed. This week, we review the Court’s experience in criminal cases.
The Court decided twenty-one criminal cases in 1994 where the State was the appellant. The Court heard sixteen such cases in 1995,
Reprinted with permission from the October 2017 issue of ALI CLE’s The Practical Lawyer.
“In God we trust. All others must bring data.”
— Professor William Edwards Deming
All of us who often speak and write about the ongoing revolution in data analytics for litigation have heard it from at least some of