Today, we’re concluding our review of the average votes to affirm decisions in civil cases of each District and Division of the Court of Appeal between 1990 and 2017.
For Division Six of the Second District, average votes to affirm was at four or more Justices in seven years since 1990 (1993, 1996, 1998, 2000,
For the past two weeks, we’ve reviewed and compared the reversal rates for every District and Division of the Court of Appeal in civil and criminal cases at the Supreme Court. But all affirmances and all reversals aren’t created equal, which is a problem with inferring too much from a reversal rate alone. Whether the
Last time, we compared the twenty-eight year reversal rate for each District and Division of the Court of Appeal in civil and criminal cases before the Supreme Court. Then we began our review of the year-by-year data in criminal cases for the First District, and the first half of the Divisions of the Second District.
Earlier this week, we looked at the reversal rates of the various Districts and Divisions of the Court of Appeal in civil cases before the Supreme Court. Today and tomorrow, we’re reviewing the data for the Court’s criminal docket.
But before we turn to the court-by-court numbers, let’s compare overall rates, both among the courts
Yesterday, we began our court-by-court review of the three-year floating reversal rates of every District and Division of the Court of Appeal in civil cases decided by the Supreme Court. Today, we’re concluding that project with Divisions 5-8 of the Second District and the Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Districts.
From 1990 to 2017, the
This week, we’re taking a close look at the reversal rates of the various Districts and Divisions of the Court of Appeal in civil cases. As always, we’re defining “criminal” cases in the data as criminal prosecutions, quasi-criminal actions (habeas corpus), juvenile and mental health cases that arise out of alleged criminal activity, and attorney
Yesterday, we discussed which Districts and Divisions of the Court of Appeal produced the Supreme Court’s criminal docket for the years 2006 through 2011. Today, we finish the story, reviewing the years 2012 through 2017 (year-to-date).
Only twenty of the Court’s 311 criminal cases for the years 2012 through 2017 originated in the First District.
Last week, we began analyzing how the Supreme Court’s criminal docket since 1994 has been distributed among the Districts and Divisions of the Court of Appeal. Today, we address the years 2006 through 2011.
Only 6.87% of the Court’s criminal cases arose from the First District in the years 2006 through 2011 – 25 of
Yesterday, we began our review of the origins in the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court’s criminal docket. Today, we continue with the years 2000 through 2005.
The Court decided thirty-four cases from the First District during these six years. Cases from Division One were few and far between – one each from 2000,
For the last couple of weeks, we’ve been reviewing the Supreme Court’s experience with criminal cases, beginning with the years 1990 through 2005. This week, we begin our trip through the Supreme Court’s criminal docket.
As we discussed two weeks ago, the First District accounted for 16.12% of the state’s population in 1990. The Court