Yesterday, we looked at the data for the number and type of insurance law cases the Court has decided, year-by-year, since 1990, as well as the insurers’ winning percentage in those cases. Today, we’re reviewing the individual Justices’ voting records in insurance law cases.
In Table 1065, we show yearly votes for insurer parties for
Today and tomorrow, we’re going to be taking a close look at how insurance companies have been doing since 1990 in appeals at the Supreme Court. Today, we’ll review the data about the types of cases the Court has heard, and insurers’ won-loss record year by year and overall, and tomorrow, we’ll be looking at
Today, we’re finishing our review of the agreement rates for the Justices between 2014 and 2018. If you get the impression reading the data below that the agreement rates for criminal cases below are consistently lower than the agreement rates on the civil side during the same years reviewed here, you’re right. I calculated
For the past few weeks, we’ve been looking at the data for the Justices’ agreement rates in non-unanimous cases – in other words, how often did each possible combination of the seven Justices vote the same way in a case which had at least one dissenter. Today, we’re looking at criminal cases between 2008 and
Last time, we reviewed the Justices’ agreement rates in divided criminal decisions between 1996 and 2001. In this post, we’re looking at the data for the years 2002 to 2007.
Because Justice Burke only joined the Court in 2006, her agreement rates vary widely among her colleagues – Justice Freeman 100%, Justices Fitzgerald, Garman and
Today, we’re continuing our look at the agreement rates for every possible combination of Justices in criminal cases by reviewing the data for the years 1996 to 2001.
Justice Freeman’s highest agreement rate during these years was with Justice Fitzgerald, 86.96%. Justice Rathje was next at 74.07%. Three Justices were in the sixties – Bilandic
Today, we start the second part of our ongoing analysis of agreement rates among the Justices since 1990 – the criminal docket. We proceed just as we did with the civil docket, tracking agreement rates in non-unanimous cases. “Disagreement” is defined as two Justices not voting exactly the same way with respect to the judgment
For the past two weeks, we’ve been reviewing the Justices’ agreement rates in divided civil cases across the period 1990 to 2018, working six years at a time. Today, we’ve reached our fifth and last post on the civil docket, reviewing the years 2014 to 2018. As we did last time, to facilitate comparisons for
Yesterday, we reviewed the Justices’ agreement rates in civil cases for the years 2002 through 2007. Today, we’re looking at the agreement rates for the next six years – 2008 through 2013, with one change. Since we’re now getting into a period where nearly all the current members of the Court had begun their tenures,
Last week, we began our review, six years at a time, of the Justices’ agreement rates in civil cases. First, we addressed the years 1990 through 1995, and then, we looked at the years 1996 through 2001. Today, we’re turning our attention to the civil agreement rates for the years 2002 to 2007.
During these