A Century Of Data Analytic Research Into Appellate Decision Making

I'm always surprised when I encounter litigators who dismiss litigation analytics as a passing fad. In fact, as shown in the reprint post below, it's a century-long academic enterprise which has produced many hundreds of studies conclusively proving through tens of thousands of pages of analysis the value of data analytics in better understanding how appellate decisions are actually made. Here's the second in our reprint series, both here and at the California blog:

The application of data analytic techniques to the study of judicial decision making arguably begins with political scientist Charles Grove Haines' 1922 article in the Illinois Law Review, General Observations on the Effects of Personal, Political, and Economic Influences in the Decisions of Judges. (17 Ill. L. Rev. 96 (1922)). Reviewing the records of New York City magistrate courts, Haines noted that while 17,075 people had been charged with public intoxication in 1916 - 92% of whom had been convicted