Last time, we began our review of the general data for reversal rates in tort cases between 2000 and 2009. This time, we’re drilling down further to look at where the cases came from and whether the Court’s reversal rate differed significantly from one District to another of the Appellate Court.
Not surprisingly, the bulk
This time, we’re reviewing the data on the Court’s tort docket for the years 2000 through 2009. The Court reversed 70% of the tort decisions it reviewed in 2000. The reversal rate then dipped for several years: 62.5% in 2001, 50% (2002), 55.6% (2003), 58.33% (2004), 50% (2005), 41.67% (2006), 42.86% (2007) and 57.14% in
Last time, we began taking another look at the Court’s tort cases since 1990 – specifically, what issues within the field of tort law has the Court been interested in? This time, we’re reviewing the data for the years 2005 through 2019.
Continue Reading What Kinds of Tort Cases Does the Supreme Court Decide (Part 2 – 2005-2019)?
For the past few months, we’ve been looking at the Court’s decision record and the individual Justices’ voting records in various civil and criminal areas of law. This week, we’re beginning a deeper dive – dividing those areas of law into discrete sub-issues and tracking where the Court has been drawing its cases from.
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Tort defendants continued to fare quite well at the Supreme Court over the past ten years, winning 41 cases while losing 23. Defendants won nine of twelve cases in 2011, seven of ten in 2012, six of seven in 2015 and five of seven in 2017.
The Court reviewed relatively few decisions where defendants prevailed
Tort defendants had another good decade before the Supreme Court during the years 2000 to 2009, winning 64 cases and losing 42. In 2001, defendants won eight of nine cases. In 2004, tort defendants went 10-3. In 2009, defendants won six of eight.
In our next Table, we review the data on how tort defendants
Today, we’re beginning our review of voting records for a new area of law – tort. Today and next week, we’ll be working our way through the data showing how tort defendants have fared at the Appellate Court since 1990: total wins and losses; wins from the Appellate Court affirmed (and reversed); and losses from
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.