Thursday, October 3, 2019

Justice Liu by the Numbers

Today's DJ has Kirk Jenkins' continuing series of data-driven analyses of each Supreme Court justice.

  • "Justice Liu is one of the most prolific writers on opinions on the California Supreme Court. He has frequently filed concurring and dissenting opinions, especially in the early years of his tenure. His civil dissents are relatively evenly distributed between six vote, five vote and four vote majorities. His criminal dissents, however, preponderantly occur in cases with five or four vote majorities. His agreement rates with the other nominees of former Gov. Brown is significantly lower than the rates among justices nominated by Republican governors, especially in criminal cases, suggesting that the emergence of a cohesive "Brown Court" is unlikely."