Yesterday, we reviewed the data on Justice Kilbride’s oral arguments in civil cases. Today, we’re looking at the criminal cases.
As you can see from the Table below, Justice Kilbride asks very few questions in criminal oral arguments. When he’s in the majority of an affirmance, he averages 0.48 questions to appellants, 0.3 to appellees.
A few weeks ago, we established that court-wide, the party which is likely to lose tends to get the most questions in oral argument. Now, we’re investigating individual Justices’ records – when the Justice agrees with the majority, does he or she follow the usual pattern, and when he or she doesn’t agree, does the
Justice Kilbride has participated in 54 domestic relations cases since joining the Court, voting for defendants in 22 cases and against in 32. From 2001 to 2005, he voted for defendants in nine of eighteen cases. From 2006 to 2010, he voted for defendants in only four of fourteen cases. From 2011 to 2015, he voted for defendants in six of seventeen cases. From 2016 to 2019, he voted for defendants in three of five cases.
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Since joining the Court, Justice Kilbride has voted in 80 criminal sentencing cases. He has voted for defendants’ position 30 times and against defendants in the remaining 50 cases. From 2001 to 2004, he voted for defendants in 10 of 21 cases. From 2005 to 2009, he voted for defendants in nine of 21 cases.
Justice Kilbride has participated in 203 criminal procedure cases since joining the Court. He has supported defendants in 81 cases and has voted against defendants 122 times. From 2001 to 2004, he has voted for defendants 18 times and against them in 25 cases. From 2005 to 2009, he voted for defendants 36 times and
Justice Kilbride has participated in 229 criminal constitutional law cases since taking his seat. He has supported defendants in 90 cases and has voted against defendants in 139 cases. Between 2001 and 2009, Justice Kilbride supported defendants in 61 cases and voted against defendants in 76 cases. Since 2010, he has supported defendants in 29
Justice Kilbride has participated in 103 civil procedure cases since joining the Court, voting for plaintiffs 52 times and for defendants in 51 cases. Between 2001 and 2005, he voted for plaintiffs in 18 of 33 cases. Between 2006 and 2010, he voted for plaintiffs in 11 of 21 cases. From 2011 to 2015, he
Justice Kilbride has participated in 85 constitutional law cases since taking his seat on the Court. He has supported defendants’ position, at least in part, in 50 cases while supporting plaintiffs in 35 cases. He supported defendants in 24 cases between 2001 and 2006 while voting for plaintiffs in 10 cases. Between 2007 and 2015,
We’ve seen over the past several posts that tort defendants have fared well at the Court in the years since 1990. Justice Kilbride has been in the minority of many of these cases since 2001. For the years 2001 to 2019, Justice Kilbride has voted for tort defendants’ position in 73 cases while voting against
Last week, we began our seven-post series, reviewing each Justice’s voting record by the area of law involved – first up, insurance law cases.
In our first Table, we show Justice Kilbride’s year-by-year votes for and against the position of insurer parties in civil cases. Since 2001, Justice Kilbride has split his votes evenly –