This time, we’re looking at the percentage of civil cases in which each of the Justices who served during the years 2010-2020 voted with the majority. Although the Court’s unanimity rate has been fairly steady with the exception of a brief two-year dip during this period, this will help illuminate which Justices drove any disagreement
In this post and the next, we’re concluding our review of the Court’s unanimity rate in civil cases set against changes in the Court’s party alignment.
Despite changes in four of the Court’s seven seats during these eleven years, the party alignment of the Court remained the same throughout – four Democrats, three Republicans. As
This week, we’re tracking the Supreme Court’s unanimity rate in civil cases, matched against the evolving party alignment of the Justices. Last time, we reviewed the data for the 1990s. Today, we’re reviewing the data for the years 2001 through 2010.
With Democrat Thomas Kilbride having replaced James Heiple in the final days of 2000,
This week we’re looking at an issue related to our discussion of panel effects: has the unanimity rate on the Court been impacted by shifts in the party alignment of the Justices?
For the entire decade of the 1990s, the Court consisted of four Democratic Justices and three Republicans. Although none of the changes affected