Today, we conclude our trip through the Court’s civil constitutional law cases.
Between 2014 and 2019, the Court has decided twenty-seven civil constitutional law cases: four in 2014, five in 2015, six in 2016, three in 2017, five in 2018 and two to date in 2019.
The Court tended to take slightly more plaintiffs wins
Today, we’re continuing our series of posts on the Court’s experience since 1990 with civil constitutional law cases.
Constitutional law cases continued to drop sharply as a share of the civil docket between 2006 and 2013, as the Court decided only twenty-nine cases. The Court decided five cases in 2006, two in 2007, eight in
Earlier today, we began our review of the Court’s history with civil constitutional law cases, starting with the years 1990 through 1997. This time, we’re looking at the next eight years: 1998 to 2005.
Constitutional law cases were down during this period. After deciding sixty-five cases between 1990 and 1997, the Court decided only forty-nine
Last time, we completed our review of the Court and Justices’ voting records on employment law cases. This week, we’re taking a look at the Court’s history with civil constitutional law cases (we also track constitutional law cases on the criminal law docket, but those cases are not included in the data below).
Throughout the
Last time, we reviewed the data on the Court’s employment law cases from 2000 to 2010 and began looking at the data for the past nine years. Today, we review the remainder of the data, as well as looking at the overall numbers.
Since employment law cases have been so rare since 2010, we combine
Last time, we began our review of the Court’s recent history with employment law cases, covering the years 1990 through 1999. Today, our review continues with the years 2000 through 2009.
The Court’s employment law docket tailed off during our second ten years, from nineteen cases between 1990 and 1999 to fourteen in the period
For the past several weeks, we’ve been analyzing areas of law, looking at the data regarding what kinds of cases the court takes and what the individual Justices’ voting records on the issue are. Today, we begin a new one: employment law.
Between 1990 and 1999, the Court decided only nineteen employment law cases: four
For the past two weeks, we’ve been tracing the Supreme Court’s record and the Justices’ voting patterns with respect to tort cases. Today, we’re finishing up with a review of the years 2010 to 2018.
In Table 1091 below, we review the performance of tort defendants who prevailed at the Appellate Court. Since 2010, such
Yesterday, we began our review of the data regarding the Court’s handling of tort cases. Today, we’re continuing that series.
In Table 1082, we divide the Court’s tort cases each year according to who won at the Appellate Court – the plaintiff or defendant? Although review of plaintiffs’ wins dropped off in 2004 and 2005,
Last week, we kicked off our new series of posts taking a deep dive on various key areas of the law, asking several important questions about the kinds of cases the Court takes, who wins them the most often, and the Justices’ voting records. This week, we’re looking at the Court’s record with tort law.