Yesterday, we reviewed the California Supreme Court’s dissents in civil cases between 2008 and 2015. Today, we turn to the Justices’ dissents in criminal cases for the same years.
Justice Kennard led the Court in 2008 and 2009, writing 6 dissents in criminal cases each year. In 2008, Justice Chin wrote two dissents and Justice
Last week, we began our analysis of the Justices’ dissents in civil and criminal cases, looking at the years 2000 through 2007. Today, we turn to the dissents in civil cases between 2008 and 2015.
We begin in Table 130 below with the number of dissents written each year by each Justice. In 2008, Justices
This week, we’re turning our attention to a new subject, tracking which Justices most often dissented, year by year, and which Justices tended to write the longest and shortest dissents. Yesterday, we reviewed the Justices’ dissents in civil cases between 2000 and 2007. Today, we review the Justices’ criminal dissents for the same years.
In
Last week, we wrapped up our analysis of the California Supreme Court’s history with amicus briefs. Today, we begin a new topic, tracking which Justices have most frequently dissented, and which Justices tend to write, year by year, the longest and shortest dissents.
In Table 126 below, we report the yearly distribution of dissents in
Yesterday, we demonstrated that majority opinions have been getting somewhat longer on average in criminal cases at the California Supreme Court since 2007. Today, we turn our attention to the Court’s majority opinions in automatic death penalty appeals. These two inquiries are not entirely independent; yesterday we were working with overall criminal docket data, including
For the past two weeks, we’ve been tracking trends in the length of majority opinions at the California Supreme Court. Today, we turn our attention to the Court’s criminal opinions during the years 2008 to 2015.
In the title, we ask whether majority opinions are getting longer in criminal cases. The answer is yes. As
Last week, we began our analysis of the length of the Court’s majority opinions, addressing civil and criminal cases between 2000 and 2007. Yesterday, we reviewed the Court’s majority opinions in death penalty appeals for the same period. Today, we turn our attention to majority opinions in civil cases between 2008 and 2015.
Overall, there
Last week, we began addressing trends in the length of the Court’s majority opinions, reviewing civil and criminal majority opinions between 2000 and 2007. Today, we turn our attention to the Court’s majority opinions in automatic death penalty appeals, with the data divided between non-unanimous and unanimous opinions.
As we show in Table 114 below,
Yesterday, we began our review of the length of the California Supreme Court’s majority opinions, addressing the Court’s civil opinions between 2000 and 2007. Today, we turn our attention to the Court’s majority opinions in criminal cases during the same period.
We report the data in Table 113 below. Two things are evident: first, majority
Last week, we completed our examination of reversal rates and average votes to affirm, District by District of the Court of Appeal. This week, we turn our attention to another issue: the length of the Court’s opinions. For context, the average majority opinion from the Illinois Supreme Court, the other court we closely follow, averages