Yesterday, we began our analysis of the Chief Justice's question patterns in civil cases from 2008 through 2016. Today, we address the Chief Justice's patterns in criminal cases.

In Table 221, we show the absolute numbers – the cases defendants have won, the partial affirmances and reversals, and the cases defendant have lost.

The standard deviation for appellants in no-dissent cases was 9.26 questions.

Yesterday, we analyzed how the area of law impacted the total volume of questions during oral argument in civil cases between 2008 and 2016, as well as analyzing how many questions one could expect...

Yesterday, we analyzed the lag times – from grant of review to oral argument, and oral argument to decision – in the Court's civil docket from 2008 to 2016.

Governmental entities won sixty percent of the time in 1990 as petitioners.

Over the past couple of weeks over at the California Supreme Court Review, we've been analyzing the California Supreme Court's experience with certified questions.

Yesterday, we analyzed the data from nine years' worth of oral arguments in civil cases, looking at correlations between Justice Burke's question patterns, her voting and whether she wrote an opinion in a given case.

Last week, we looked at the average time under submission at the Illinois Supreme Court from allowance of the petition for leave to appeal to oral argument to decision.

Justice Werdegar took her seat on the Court on June 3, 1994, replacing Justice Edward Panelli.

Yesterday, we began our retrospective of the tenure of Justice Kathryn M. Werdegar, who will retire on August 31, 2017.

Yesterday, we began reviewing the areas of law in which government entities have pursued civil appeals since 1994. Today, we're addressing the years 2000 through 2005.

For the past two weeks, we've been considering how the Court's civil and criminal cases were distributed among the Districts and Divisions of the Court of Appeal.

Yesterday, we began looking at a new question in our ongoing studies – what areas of law does the State most often appeal in civil cases?

Two weeks ago, we began our detailed analysis of the data on oral arguments in civil and criminal cases between 2008 and 2016.

Yesterday, we showed that unlike many of his colleagues, Justice Freeman does not tend to ask the party he's voting against more questions at oral argument – he averages more questions...

Last week, we analyzed Justice Werdegar's majority opinions in civil cases.

Last week, we began our look at the California Supreme Court's experience since 1994 in appeals which originated in certified questions from the Ninth Circuit.

Yesterday, we began our analysis of the individual Justices' voting records in death penalty cases – specifically, how often each Justice voted with the majority.

Our review of the Court's oral arguments between 2008 and 2016 continues this week with Chief Justice Thomas Fitzgerald.