Judges and Judiciary,
California Supreme Court,
Appellate Practice
Jun. 18, 2018
California Supreme Court by the numbers: oral arguments
What can we learn from the oral arguments in the 84 cases decided by the California Supreme Court in 2017?
Kirk C. Jenkins
Partner
Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP
Email: KJenkins@lewisroca.com
Harvard Law School
Kirk is a certified specialist in appellate law.
Although political science professors began applying data analytic techniques to the study of appellate decision-making in the late 1940s, analysts largely disregarded appellate oral arguments until the past 15 years. Before that time, many appellate lawyers insisted that oral argument gave no real indication of how a case was likely to come out, and just because any particular justice's questions seemed to indicate hostility (or favor) towards one advocate's case did...
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