Updated Stat Pack for October Term 2012
on Jun 22, 2013 at 10:11 am
This is another post in an ongoing series analyzing statistical trends at the Court. For a more complete look at the statistics that we collect on the Court, you can find all of our up-to-date charts and graphs here.
We are happy to present the sixth interim Stat Pack for October Term 2012. This edition features updates to each of our charts and several new items: a second circuit scorecard (p. 4), a Justice agreement table for 5-4 cases (p. 15), a series of tables for the highest and lowest agreement pairs (p. 16), and voting alignments for all cases (p. 36-41) and 5-4 cases only (pp. 44-45). You can download the full Stat Pack here.
This edition of the Stat Pack features the following sections:
- Opinions by Sitting
- Circuit Scorecard
- Merits Cases by Vote Split
- Make-Up of the Merits Docket
- Total Opinion Authorship
- Majority Opinion Authorship
- Frequency in the Majority
- 5-4 Decisions
- Justice Agreement – Tables
- Justice Agreement – Highs and Lows
- Time Between Grant and Oral Argument
- Time Between Oral Argument and Opinion
- Pace of Grants
- Pace of Opinions
- Oral Argument – Advocates
- OT12 Case List
- Voting Alignment – All Cases
- Voting Alignment – 5-4 Cases
