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.
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