Friday, June 30, 2006

SCOTUS Stats

The WSJ's Law Blog points to the Georgetown University Law Center Supreme Court Institutes 29 page overview of the 2005 term [pdf].

49% of the cases were decided without dissent. There were only 99 dissents this term vs 134 last term.

"Of the nine Justices currently on the Court, the Justices who voted the most often together were Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito(90.9%). Of those Justices who were on the Court for the entire Term, the alignment of Justice Scalia and Justice Thomas was most frequent (86.8%). Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Scalia had a high percentage of votes in alignment (86.4%). Voting least often together were Justice Stevens and Justice Alito (41.2%). Justice Thomas voted with the frequency among those Justices who were on the Court for the entire Term equally with Justice Stevens, Justice Souter, and Justice Ginsburg (52.9%). "

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