Final October Term 2015 Stat Pack
on Jun 29, 2016 at 11:25 pm
Today I am happy to present the final SCOTUSblog Stat Pack for October Term 2015. This year, the fifty-page Stat Pack includes information about, among other things, the rate of unanimity, the number of opinions written by each Justice, agreement among different Justices, and how opinions were distributed in each sitting.
You can download the Stat Pack in its entirety here. You can also view each section of the Stat Pack individually below.
- Cover Page & Index (page 1)
- Opinions by Sitting (p. 2)
- Circuit Scorecards (pp. 3-4)
- Merits Cases by Vote Split (p. 5)
- Make-Up of the Merits Docket (p. 6)
- Term Index (p. 7)
- Total Opinion Authorship (p. 8)
- Total Opinions Over Time (p. 9)
- Opinions Authored by Each Justice (p. 10)
- Workload (p. 11-14)
- Summary Reversals (p. 15)
- Merits Opinions (p. 16)
- Majority Opinion Authorship (p. 17)
- Strength of the Majority (p. 18)
- Unanimity (p. 19-20)
- Frequency in the Majority (p. 21)
- 5-4 Cases (pp. 22-25)
- Majority Opinion Distribution by Senior Justices (pp. 26-27)
- Justice Agreement – Tables (pp. 28-30)
- Justice Agreement – Highs and Lows (p. 30)
- Time Between Cert. Grant and Oral Argument (p. 32)
- Time Between Oral Argument and Opinion (p. 33)
- Pace of Grants (p. 34)
- Pace of Opinions (p. 35)
- Grants Per Conference (p. 36)
- Opinions Per Week (p. 37)
- Oral Argument – Justices (p. 38)
- Oral Argument – Advocates (pp. 39-40)
- Voting Alignment – All Cases (pp. 41-49)
- Voting Alignment – 5-4 Cases (p. 50)
I would like to thank all of the individuals who provided comments and feedback on the Stat Pack throughout the Term (and in previous Terms). Our Stat Pack is compiled as a labor of love, and the SCOTUSblog community has been hugely influential in shaping the content and design of our statistics. If you have any comments, suggestions, or corrections, please do not hesitate to send me an email.
