Today and next week, we’re reviewing the Court’s year by year record in tort cases – what’s the defendants’ won-loss record, how often were tort defendant wins from the Court of Appeal affirmed and losses reversed. In Table 1255, we report insurers’ yearly won-loss record from 1990 to 1999. What’s evident from the data is

Last week, we reviewed the year-by-year numbers for the Court’s tort law caseload.  This week, we’re taking a closer look at the Court’s tort decisions to answer three questions: (1) did the Court hear more defendants’ wins or plaintiffs’ wins from the Court of Appeal on the tort caseload; (2) did the Court tend to

For the past two weeks, we’ve been taking a detailed look at the Supreme Court’s caseload of civil and criminal procedure decisions.  This week and next, we’re looking at the Court’s tort cases on the civil side and reviewing the death penalty decisions on the criminal side.

Between 1992 and the end of 2017, the