These tables are derived from information contained in 123 Wisconsin Supreme Court decisions that were turned up in a Lexis search for decisions filed between September 1, 1981, and August 31, 1982. The total of 123 decisions does not include rulings arising from (1) disciplinary proceedings against lawyers, and (2) various motions and petitions.
Another case, State ex rel. Badger Produce Co. v. Equal Opportunity Commission, resulted in a deadlocked (3-3) per curiam decision and is included only in the “number of oral arguments presented” table.
The tables are available as a complete set and by individual topic in the subsets listed below.
Four-to-Three Decisions
Decisions Arranged by Vote Split
Frequency of Justices in the Majority
Distribution of Opinion Authorship
Frequency of Agreement Between Pairs of Justices
Average Time Between Oral Argument and Opinions Authored by Each Justice
Number of Oral Arguments Presented by Individual Firms and Agencies
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