Last time, we showed that there is a mild relationship between the total time pending from the grant of the petition for leave to appeal until final decision by the Supreme Court and the ultimate case result in civil cases: more often than not, affirmances took longer. Below, we’re reviewing the Court’s criminal cases.
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This week, we’re addressing a new issue: does the lag time from the grant of a party’s petition for leave to appeal to a final decision from the Supreme Court tell us anything about what the result is likely to be? We begin with the civil docket for the years 2011 through 2020.
What we
Last time, we looked at whether the Court’s lag time – from the allowance of a petition for leave to appeal to oral argument, and from oral argument to decision – gives litigants a hint of what the Court’s decision is likely to be. We showed that although there’s no consistent relationship between lag time
Last week, we reviewed the basic data on lag times at the Court – how long has it typically taken, year after year, for civil and criminal cases to be argued and decided. This week, we’re looking at a different aspect of lag time – does it help predict the likely result? Is a case
Last time, we reviewed the lag time data for the Court’s civil cases between 2005 and 2017 – specifically, (1) grant of petition for leave to appeal to oral argument; and (2) oral argument to decision. This time, we’re looking at the Court’s experience with its criminal docket.
Once again, we have only the argument-to-decision
Last time, we were reviewing the Court’s treatment of cases with a dissent at the Appellate Court. This week, we’re reviewing the data on lag times at the Court.
In 2014, a joint project of the Court Management Committee of the Conference of Chief Justices and the Conference of State Court Administrators, in conjunction with