All Articles tagged High court study

• State Constitutional Commentary
  August 08, 2009 EDT
  THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDEPENDENT NEW YORK CONSTITUTIONAL JURISPRUDENCE IN CHIEF JUDGE KAYE’S JUDICIAL OPINIONS: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY
  Gordon Eddy

  This article aims to objectively determine what the effects have been of Judge Kaye’s conceded efforts to advance independent state constitutional decision-making since becoming Chief Judge in 1993.

• New York Appeals
  May 05, 2009 EDT
  SHIPPING UP TO BOSTON: THE VOTING OF THE MASSACHUSETTS SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT IN NON-UNANIMOUS CRIMINAL CASES FROM 2001–2008
  Kevin Blackwell

  This study demonstrates trends in how the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decided non-unanimous or divided criminal cases over an eight-year period.

• New York Appeals
  May 05, 2009 EDT
  IS THE NEW YORK STATE COURT OF APPEALS STILL “FRIENDLESS?” AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF AMICUS CURIAE PARTICIPATION
  Matthew Laroche

  This author conducted an empirical study of amicus curiae participation in the Court of Appeals over the last twenty years.

• State Constitutional Commentary
  May 05, 2007 EDT
  PENNSYLVANIA SUPREME COURT: THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME
  James W. Barr

  This high court study considers the effect the election of Justice Eakin and the resulting Republican majority had on the percentage of criminal appeals decided in favor of the prosecution.

• State Constitutional Commentary
  May 05, 2007 EDT
  THE INDIANA SUPREME COURT’S VOTING PATTERNS IN CRIMINAL DECISIONS
  Jason A. Cherna

  This high court study focuses on the Indiana Supreme Court’s divided criminal decisions, specifically those non-unanimous criminal decisions rendered between September 1, 2001 and August 31, 2006.

• State Constitutional Commentary
  May 05, 2007 EDT
  APPELLATE DIVISION ON APPEAL: THE JUSTICES’ RATES OF AGREEMENT, REJECTION, AND VINDICATION BY THE COURT OF APPEALS
  Vincent Martin Bonventre

  This study examines every non-unanimous decision the NYS Appellate Division rendered between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2005, reviewed on appeal by the Court of Appeals by June 2006.