California Supreme Court Review, published by Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, focuses on detailed analysis and commentary related to the California Supreme Court's decisions and appellate practices. The blog covers trends in majority opinion lengths, unanimity rates, and caseload changes in both civil and criminal cases. It also addresses practical differences in appellate procedures across neighboring states, providing insights for appellate practitioners. The content includes data-driven reviews of court opinions, discussions on litigation strategies, and updates on regulatory and administrative law developments relevant to California's highest court.
Today we’re beginning a series of posts examining the declining dockets at the Court of Appeal and assessing the impact on the Supreme Court’s work.
Below, we report the District-by-District new Notices of Appeal numbers (civil, criminal and juvenile) for…
This time, we’re measuring the length of Supreme Court review in civil cases by an alternative measure – the average number of days from the close of briefing to oral argument. One caveat – this data set runs from the…
Today, we’re looking at a new topic, tracking the average time Supreme Court review takes for civil cases. In this and the following post, we measure the lag time in two ways: below, from the grant of review to oral…
Turning finally to the Sixth District, according to the 2020 census, Santa Clara County was 73.17% of the population. Monterey County accounted for 16.59% of the population among the three counties contributing cases to the docket and Santa Cruz was…
With this post, we turn our attention to the Fifth District. Fresno (33.63%) and Kern counties (30.31%) comprise a large slice of the District’s population. Stanislaus County is 18.43%, Tulare is 15.77% and Tuolumne County is 1.85%.
Fifth District civil…
The Fourth District is almost equally divided between three counties – San Diego (29.28%), Orange (28.29%) and Riverside (21.47%). San Bernardino County accounts for 19.37% of the population and Imperial County is 1.6%.
San Diego County had 24 cases for…
According to the 2020 census, Sacramento County accounted for 52.94% of the population of the Third District. San Joaquin County was 26.02%. Yolo was 7.23%, Butte County was 7.07%, Shasta County had 6.08% and Plumas County was 0.66% of the…
As we’ve discussed before, Los Angeles County accounts for nearly all of the population in the Second District. According to the 2020 census, the population of LA County was 10,014,009 – 86.41% of the Second District. Ventura County was 7.28%,…
Alameda County remained the biggest county in the First District according to the 2020 census, accounting for 29.56% of the population in the First District. Contra Costa was next, with 20.49% of the District. San Francisco was third at 15.36%…
Finally, we reach the final part of this second series of our multi-part post on the geographic origins of the Court’s civil docket.
Santa Clara accounts for 72.45% of the population in the counties with cases on the civil docket…
