Cal Supremes Year in Review

SCOCAblog has posted its SCOCA Year in Review 2018: Still Not the Brown Court, which crunches the data and draws the following conclusions:

• There is a voting record distinction between the senior justices and the justices appointed by Governor Brown;
• The pro tem justices do not vote in lockstep with the Chief Justice or the majority;
• Which governor appointed a pro tem justice does not correlate with pro tem voting;
• Justice Liu produces by far the most opinions;
• There is a disparity between how often the Brown appointees vote with the majority and how many majority opinions they write; and
• Productivity may not have dropped without seven permanent justices.