Final Stat Pack for October Term 2014

KEDAR BHATIA JUN 30, 2015 11:23 AM

[Updated 7/5/2015: Several pages have been updated to reflect changes to the Stat Pack. The links below will send you to the updated Stat Pack.]

Today we are happy to present the final SCOTUSblog Stat Pack for October Term 2014. This year, our Stat Pack includes information about the wealth of dissenting opinions, dip in unanimous opinions, uptick in the number of liberal 5-4 decisions, and, as always, the Justice Agreement rates.

You can download the final Stat Pack in its entirety here. Below you can view each section of the Stat Pack individually.

• Cover Page & Index (page 1)
• Opinions by Sitting (p. 2)
• Circuit Scorecards (pp. 3-4)
• Merits Cases by Vote Split (p. 5)
• Make-Up of the Merits Docket (p. 6)
• Term Index (p. 7)
• Total Opinion Authorship (p. 8)
• Total Opinions Over Time (p. 9)
• Opinions Authored by Each Justice (p. 10)
• Workload (p. 11-14)
• Summary Reversals (p. 15)
• Merits Opinions (p. 16)
• Majority Opinion Authorship (p. 17)
• Strength of the Majority (p. 18)
• Unanimity (p. 19-20)
• Frequency in the Majority (p. 21)
• 5-4 Cases (pp. 22-25)
• Majority Opinion Distribution by Senior Justices (pp. 26-27)
• Justice Agreement – Tables (pp. 28-30)
• Justice Agreement – Highs and Lows (p. 30)
• Time Between Cert. Grant and Oral Argument (p. 32)
• Time Between Oral Argument and Opinion (p. 33)
• Pace of Grants (p. 34)
• Pace of Opinions (p. 35)
• Grants Per Conference (p. 36)
• Opinions Per Week (p. 37)
• Oral Argument – Justices (p. 38)
• Oral Argument – Advocates (pp. 39-40)
• Voting Alignment – All Cases (pp. 41-49)
• Voting Alignment – 5-4 Cases (p. 50-52)

We would like to thank all of the individuals who provided comments and feedback on the Stat Pack throughout the Term. Our Stat Pack is compiled as a labor of love, and the SCOTUSblog community has been hugely influential in shaping the content and design of our statistics. If you have any further comments, suggestions, or corrections, please do not hesitate to send me an email.

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