Yesterday, we looked at the distribution and average length of the Court’s majority opinions in criminal cases not involving the death penalty between 2008 and 2015. Today, we address the distribution of the Court’s most recent death penalty appeals.
Between 2008 and 2015, Justice Chin wrote the most majority opinions in death penalty cases with
For the past few weeks, we’ve been analyzing the distribution of majority opinions among the Justices in civil, criminal and death penalty cases, and which Justices tend to write the longest (and shortest) opinions. Today, we turn our attention to the Court’s criminal cases between 2008 and 2015. Once again, we omit the death penalty
Yesterday, we continued our analysis of the Court’s majority opinions, reviewing which Justices wrote most and least often for the Court in non-death criminal matters, and which tended to write the longest and shortest majority opinions for the years 2000-2007. Today, we turn our attention to the Court’s majority opinions in civil cases between 2008
Last week, we looked at the Justices’ majority opinions in civil and death penalty appeals between 2000 and 2007. Today, we turn our attention to majority opinions in criminal cases. Because death penalty majorities are nearly always considerably longer than non-death cases, we limit this part of our analysis to criminal cases not involving the
Yesterday, we analyzed the Justices’ history with majority opinions in civil cases between 2000 and 2007. Today, we turn our attention to the Court’s history with majority opinions in automatic death penalty appeals. We separate out death penalty appeals from criminal cases in general because majority opinions in death penalty cases are nearly always considerably
Last week, we concluded our analysis of the distribution of concurring opinions in civil and criminal cases. This week, we turn our attention to a new topic: the distribution and average length of the Court’s majority opinions. We begin today with civil opinions between 2000 and 2007.
Between 2000 and 2007, Justice Werdegar led the
Yesterday, we looked at which Justices have filed the most concurrences, year by year, in civil cases since 2008. Today, we turn our attention to the criminal side of the docket.
Despite having not joined the Court until the fall of 2011, there’s no question that Justice Liu files the most concurrences in criminal cases.
Last week, we began our analysis of the frequency and length of concurrences since 2000. This week, we’ll be looking at the Court’s most recent history – 2008-2015. We’ll begin today with the civil docket.
For the years 2008 through 2011, the most frequent author of concurrences on the Court was Justice Werdegar. Since that
Yesterday, we analyzed the Justices’ concurrences in civil cases between 2000 and 2007. Today, we turn our attention to the Court’s criminal cases between 2000 and 2007.
Concurrences were on a downward slope during these years. The Court’s most busy year was 2000, when there were 28 concurrences filed in criminal, quasi-criminal and juvenile matters.
Last week, we completed our analysis of which Justices of the Court have written the most (and least) dissents on both the civil and criminal sides of the docket since 2000, and which Justices tend to write the longest dissents. So the obvious follow-up is to look at concurrences. On the one hand, there are