Fifty weeks (and just over a hundred posts) ago, we started the California Supreme Court Review, applying statistical and data analytic techniques to studying the decision making of the California Supreme Court.

According to a recent report from the Financial Times, big banks were named as defendants in 157 High Court lawsuits in the 12 months preceding September 2016, ...

Today, we're reviewing the data for death penalty appeals between 2000 and 2007.

In Table 441, we report the average questions to appellants, to appellees, and total to both sides in civil cases, divided by affirmances and reversals.

In Table 167 below, we report the mean number of days, year by year, from grant of review to oral argument in civil cases.

Yesterday, we looked at the small number of certified appeals the Court has decided since the late 1990s.

Our data contains 128 affirmances and 136 reversals between 2010 and 2016.

Yesterday, we announced the completion of a substantial expansion to the Illinois Supreme Court's database.

Last time, we reviewed the areas of the law which governmental entities appealed between 2006 and 2012. Today, we complete the cycle, reviewing the years 2013 through 2016.

As we noted yesterday, the Chief Justice voted with the majority in 32 civil affirmances, writing the majority opinion in five of those cases.

This week, we conclude our series of posts on the originating jurisdictions, year-by-year, of the California Supreme Court's civil docket.

Today, we conclude our series on the originating jurisdictions, year-by-year, of the Court's civil docket.

Since the Kokesh decision arose out of an SEC enforcement action, its impact will likely be seen in how the SEC chooses its targets for future enforcement actions.

Last week, we began reviewing the subject matter areas in which governmental entities appealed to the Illinois Supreme Court between 1990 and 2003.

Yesterday, we continued tracking the areas of law, year by year, in which governmental entities appealed in civil cases. Today, we're completing our review with the years 2011 through 2016.

Over the past few weeks, we've looked at how often the State is the appellant in civil and criminal cases at the Supreme Court, and at the distribution of the Court's cases ...

Yesterday, we reviewed the data for Chief Justice Fitzgerald's question pattern in criminal cases between 2008 and 2010.

In 2003, thirteen cases originated in Los Angeles County.

On June 2, 2017, the Health Care Industry Cybersecurity Task Force published its Report on Improving Cybersecurity in the Health Care Industry.

The Court decided twenty-one criminal cases in 1994 where the State was the appellant.