This time, we’re looking at the second part of our analysis for the years 2000 through 2009 – excluding unanimous affirmances, how many votes to affirm the Appellate Court did each District and Division average?
In 2000, decisions from the Second District fared best, averaging 2.5 votes to affirm. The Fourth District and the Second
Today we’re continuing our two-part analysis of each District of the Appellate Court’s performance at the Supreme Court since 1990. Question 1, which we address below, is how likely is a civil decision from each part of the Appellate Court to be affirmed unanimously? Question 2, which we’ll look at for the next post, is
Last time, we reviewed the percentage of the time the Supreme Court affirmed civil decisions from each District unanimously. This time we’re looking at average votes to affirm in non-unanimous decisions.
In 1990, Division Four of the First District averaged three votes to affirm. In 1991, Division Five averaged three votes. In 1992, Division Four
This time, we’re beginning a multi-week inquiry: (1) what percentage of the time does the Supreme Court affirm each District and Division of the Appellate Court unanimously; and (2) among non-unanimous decisions, what’s the average votes to affirm for each court?
In Table 1729, we report the percentage of unanimous affirmances for each District and
This time, we’re looking at the percentage of civil cases in which each of the Justices who served during the years 2010-2020 voted with the majority. Although the Court’s unanimity rate has been fairly steady with the exception of a brief two-year dip during this period, this will help illuminate which Justices drove any disagreement
In this post and the next, we’re concluding our review of the Court’s unanimity rate in civil cases set against changes in the Court’s party alignment.
Despite changes in four of the Court’s seven seats during these eleven years, the party alignment of the Court remained the same throughout – four Democrats, three Republicans. As
This week, we’re tracking the Supreme Court’s unanimity rate in civil cases, matched against the evolving party alignment of the Justices. Last time, we reviewed the data for the 1990s. Today, we’re reviewing the data for the years 2001 through 2010.
With Democrat Thomas Kilbride having replaced James Heiple in the final days of 2000,
This week we’re looking at an issue related to our discussion of panel effects: has the unanimity rate on the Court been impacted by shifts in the party alignment of the Justices?
For the entire decade of the 1990s, the Court consisted of four Democratic Justices and three Republicans. Although none of the changes affected
With this post, we begin our short review of some of the academic literature regarding panel effects.
Of course, the first question one encounters when taking a case before an appellate court is how one’s panel will be chosen. A majority of appellate courts state, either in their operating procedures or their rules, that appellate
This week, we’re taking a short break from our usual number-heavy analysis for another glance at some of the vast academic literature on the analytic-driven analysis of appellate decision making. This is a four-part post – two here and two over at the California Supreme Court Review – sampling some of the literature on “panel