This week, we turn our attention to Chief Justice Fitzgerald's patterns in criminal cases.

Last week, we reviewed the data on the originating jurisdictions of the California Supreme Court's civil cases between 1995 and 1999.

Yesterday, we began our year-by-year review of where the Court's civil cases have originated since 1994.

Last week, we began our statistical retrospective of Justice Kathryn M. Werdegar's twenty-three years on the California Supreme Court.

Yesterday, we looked at the court's experience with amicus briefs in criminal cases for the first half of our study period, 1994-2005. Today, we look at the data for the second half of the period.

On July 21, 2017, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed into law a bill that places new restrictions on retailers' collection and use of information collected when a customer's identification (ID) card is scanned.

Television dramas have consistently shown us that authorities do not negotiate with kidnappers and they refuse to pay ransom. "Ransom", a television series on CBS, portrays a team that works to resolve ransom cases, including in the recent season finale, ransom demanded by a hacker.

Last time, we looked at public entities' winning percentage in civil cases at the California Supreme Court between 1994 and 2005. Today, we look at the second half of our study period ...

For the past two weeks, we've been reviewing the government's winning percentage as the appellant in civil cases at the Illinois Supreme Court. Today, we finish our review with the years 2011 through 2016.

As of 1990, Cook County accounted for 44.66% of the total population of Illinois.

Yesterday, we began our review of the individual Justices' voting records in death penalty cases, discussing the data on the percentage of the time each Justice voted with the majority in death penalty...

This week we're turning our attention to multiple issues: (1) does each individual Justice ask more questions of the prevailing or losing party in civil cases;

Over the last two weeks, we've reviewed Justice Freeman's question patterns in civil and criminal cases.

For the past two weeks, we've been reviewing the originating jurisdictions – not the first trial court, but the first authority, whether agency, council or board – for the California Supreme Court's civil...

For the past two weeks, we've been studying death penalty appeals, both here and on the California Supreme Court Review blog.

Yesterday, we reviewed governmental entities' winning percentage, year by year and area of law by area of civil law, for the years 1994 through 1999.

Yesterday, we began our study of where in the Appellate Court the Court has drawn its civil docket each year. Today, we're reviewing the years 1997 through 2003.

Yesterday, we began our journey through the Appellate Court designations for criminal cases with the years 1990 through 1996.

Last week, we began looking at which Districts and Divisions of the Appellate Court produced the Supreme Court's criminal, quasi-criminal and attorney disciplinary docket for the years 1990 through 2003.

Earlier this week, we reviewed the data on the percentage of the time each Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court voted with the majority in death penalty cases.