We conclude with the Chief Justice’s record in majority and dissenting opinions for criminal, quasi-criminal, mental health and juvenile justice cases. The Chief Justice has written 81 majority opinions in criminal cases. Forty-one of those eighty-one opinions were in death penalty cases. She has written a dozen majority opinions each in criminal procedure and sentencing
We’re concluding our review of Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye’s tenure to date with a look at her majority and dissenting opinions.
The Chief Justice has written 49 majority opinions in civil cases. The leading topic is civil procedure with fifteen, followed by government and administrative law (10 majorities), constitutional law (6 majorities), tort law (5 majorities)
Today, we’re in the fourth part of our six-part review of Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye’s tenure. This time, we’re reviewing the data on how often the Chief Justice is in the majority.
The short answer: a lot. Since joining the Court, the Chief Justice has voted in the majority in 96.69% of her civil cases. The
We’re on to the third part of our six-part review of Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye’s tenure at the Supreme Court. Today, we’re reviewing the Chief Justice’s voting record.
The Chief Justice has voted to affirm 114 times since 2011. She has voted to reverse 169 times and cast split votes to affirm in part and reverse
This time, we’re reviewing the Chief Justice’s opinions.
Since joining the Court, Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye has written 49 majority opinions in civil cases. She has written seven concurring opinions and only four dissents. Only once has she written more than one civil dissent in a given year – two in 2019. The same is true
This week, we’re continuing our review of the individual Justices’ tenures. Next up: Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye.
The Chief Justice has participated in 332 civil cases since joining the Court in 2011 (note that we’re applying the same cut-off date for all Justices’ 2021 cases). Her heaviest full year was 2017, when she sat on
Today, we begin the second phase of our review of the Justices’ individual voting records. The percentage of the time a particular Justice votes in the majority and the minority is one measure of to what degree she or he is in philosophical sync with the rest of the Court. When applied to a Chief
Today, we’re examining the Chief Justice’s voting record in civil cases.
Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye took her seat on January 3, 2011. Since that time, she has voted in 312 civil cases. Consistent with the slight uptick in the Court’s production in civil cases in the second half of the Chief Justice’s tenure, she cast 139
When the Chief Justice joins an affirmance in criminal cases, she averages 3.49 questions to appellants and 1.53 questions to respondents. When she joins the majority in a reversal, she averages 3.22 questions to respondents, 2.68 to appellants. When she joins the majority in a split decision, she averages 4.23 questions to appellants, 1.55 to respondents.
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A few weeks ago, we established that court-wide, the party which is likely to lose tends to get the most questions in oral argument. Now, we’re investigating individual Justices’ records – when the Justice agrees with the majority, does he or she follow the usual pattern, and when he or she doesn’t agree, does the Justice more heavily question that party that will lose, or the party he or she thinks should lose? This week, we’re looking at Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye’s data.
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