These tables are derived from information contained in 285 Wisconsin Supreme Court decisions that were turned up in a Nexis Uni search for decisions filed between September 1, 1921, and August 31, 1922. The total of 285 decisions does not include various orders pertaining to petitions, motions, and disciplinary matters involving lawyers and judges.
Also omitted are three deadlocked (3-3) cases: Kroner v. Order of United Commercial Travelers; Hahn v. Eells; and Griffin v. Milwaukee E. R. & Light Co.
When two (or more) cases were, in effect, consolidated—one was simply said to be ruled by the decision in the other—the cases are counted as only one: Evangelical Lutheran St. Paul’s Congregation v. Hass and Evangelical Lutheran St. Paul’s Congregation v. Jaeger.
Eight justices appear in a number of the tables because Justice Robert Siebecker died in February 1922 and was replaced in April by Justice Charles Crownhart. The sources do not make it possible to determine precisely when Justice Siebecker ceased to participate in cases before his death; nor can we tell exactly when Justice Crownhart began voting in decisions filed after his appointment at the beginning of April. The decisions name the authors of majority opinions and separate opinions, as well as the justices who joined separate opinions, but they do not list the justices who merely joined majority opinions (by far the largest category of participation). Thus, I sometimes had to guess from fragmentary internal evidence whether a decision was, say, 6-0 or 7-0, and this should be borne in mind when viewing some of the following tables.
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
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