Last time, we reviewed the Court’s oral arguments in criminal cases at the macro level – data on the whole court.  This time, we’re going micro – what can we predict about individual Justices’ votes and writing based on the oral arguments? In Table 1024, we report average questions per Justice in criminal cases.  All the Justices except Justice Liu averaged more questions – particularly when adding the rebuttal to the appellant’s opening segment –…

In our next two posts, we’re reviewing the data for the Court’s oral arguments in criminal cases during 2018. In all, the Justices asked 1,103 questions of appellants and 896 of appellees. That works out to 22.06 questions to the appellant, and 17.92 to the appellee. We’ve shown before that most argument analytics studies have shown that the party getting more questions is likely to lose.  In criminal affirmances last year, appellants averaged 24.06 questions…

Justices Cuellar and Liu were the most frequent questioners during civil cases in 2018.  Justice Cuellar averaged 5.42 questions of appellants, 5.94 of appellees and 0.48 in rebuttals.  Justice Liu averaged 4.33 of appellants, 6.15 of appellees and 1.24 in rebuttals.  Justice Corrigan averaged 2.42 questions in appellants, 2.18 of appellees and 0.64 in rebuttals.  Justice Kruger averaged 3.72 questions of appellants, 3.75 questions of appellees and 0.44 questions in rebuttals.  The Chief Justice averaged…

This time, we’re looking at the oral arguments in civil cases in 2018.  For new readers, you can review the history of data analytics for oral arguments here. For civil cases decided last year, the Court asked 958 questions of appellants and 889 of appellees – an average of 29.03 questions to appellants and 26.94 questions to appellees.  A bit of context – as shown in our posts earlier this week at the Illinois …

The Supreme Court decided thirty-nine government and administrative law cases between 2014 and 2019: three in 2014, eleven per year in 2015 and 2016, nine in 2017, five in 2018 and none so far in 2019. The Court decided twenty-two cases between 2014 and 2019 which were won by the defender of government authority versus seventeen cases won by the challengers. Challengers to government actions once again had a hard time in cases they had…

Between 2006 and 2013, the Supreme Court decided forty-five cases involving government and administrative law issues: nine in 2006, ten in 2007, five in 2008, four in 2009, four in 2010, two in 2011, four in 2012 and seven in 2013. The caseload leaned a little bit towards cases won by the defenders of government actions below – defenders won twenty-four cases at the Court of Appeal before the Supreme Court granted review, while challengers…

Between 2006 and 2013, the Supreme Court decided forty-five cases involving government and administrative law issues: nine in 2006, ten in 2007, five in 2008, four in 2009, four in 2010, two in 2011, four in 2012 and seven in 2013. The caseload leaned a little bit towards cases won by the defenders of government actions below – defenders won twenty-four cases at the Court of Appeal before the Supreme Court granted review, while challengers…