Yesterday, we began our analysis of the Court’s procedural cases with a review of the year-by-year data on the Court’s civil procedure cases. Today, we’re looking at the Court’s criminal procedure cases. For the entire period 1990-2017, the Court has decided a total of 307 cases whose primary issue involved criminal procedure.
The Court decided nineteen criminal procedure cases in 1990. The Court decided 16 cases in 1991, 9 in 1992, 7 in 1993, 13 in 1994, 8 in 1995 and 6 in 1996.
The Court decided twelve criminal procedure cases in 1997, 7 in 1998, 14 in 1999, 9 per year in 2000 and 2001, 8 in 2002 and 13 in 2003.
In 2004, the Court decided 13 criminal procedure cases. The Court decided 11 cases in 2005, 21 in 2006 and 8 in 2007. The Court had no criminal procedure cases in 2008, but decided 25 cases in 2009 and 14 in 2010.
In 2011, the Court decided 12 cases involving criminal procedure issues. The Court decided 8 cases in 2012, 9 per year in 2013, 2014 and 2015, 7 cases in 2016 and a final dozen cases in 2017.
Join us back here next week as we continue our analysis of the Court’s civil and criminal procedure decisions.
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