Wisconsin Supreme Court Statistics, 1977-1978

These tables are derived from information contained in 247 Wisconsin Supreme Court decisions that were turned up in a Lexis search for decisions filed between September 1, 1977, and August 31, 1978.  The total of 247 decisions does not include rulings arising from (1) various motions and petitions, and (2) disciplinary matters involving lawyers and judges.  Among the items omitted is Kristi Koschkee v. Tony Evers, which resulted in an order pertaining to two preliminary motions.

I am also excluding In re Court of Appeals, a per curiam ruling (with no case number) on a matter pertaining to the establishment of the Court of Appeals. 

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

 

About Alan Ball

Alan Ball is a Professor of History at Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI.

alan.ball@marquette.edu

SCOWstats offers numerical analysis of the voting by Wisconsin Supreme Court justices on diverse issues over the past 91 years.

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