For any court, but especially the U.S. Supreme Court, no decision truly stands alone. Each helps to weave a tapestry of legal context that informs our understanding of crucial issues. Yesterday the SCOTUS Blog released a super stat pack summarizing its statistics, charts, lists and observations about the Court term which just concluded.
If you occasionally follow or cover the Supreme Court, I recommend checking out this information. Here’s what it includes:
- Opinion tally
- Justice agreement
- Decisions by final vote
- Frequency in the majority
- Opinion authors by sitting
- Circuit scorecard
- Court’s workload
- Grant rates by conference
- Questions presented during the term and results (with embedded links to slip opinions)
- Visual representation of Supreme Court voting lineups (sorted by case name, author, and number in the majority)
NOTE: Currently this information is available only in PDF format. I’ve inquired whether it will be released in spreadsheet format (which would allow deeper exploration), and will update this post when I get a response.
If you occasionally or regularly follow the U.S. Supreme Court, the SCOTUS Blog and the SCOTUS wiki are indispensable resources. Through the blog and wiki, the law firm Akin, Gump delivers overviews, analysis, news and links to key documents of every case before the Court.
(Thanks to ProPublica for the tip.)
