Who can doubt that technology is supplanting human beings as an arbiter of our endeavors. Whether replacing baseball umpires calling balls and strikes, HR personnel ranking job candidates, or university professors grading students’ work, such … [Continue reading]
No decisions were filed this week--hence, no change in the standings. … [Continue reading]
No decisions were filed this week--hence, no change in the standings. … [Continue reading]
No decisions were filed this week--hence, no change in the standings. … [Continue reading]
These tables are derived from information contained in 292 Wisconsin Supreme Court decisions that were turned up in a Nexis Uni search for decisions filed between September 1, 1924, and August 31, 1925. The total of 292 decisions does not include … [Continue reading]
No decisions were filed this week--hence, no change in the standings. … [Continue reading]
An earlier post examined a sample of supreme court decisions from the 1920s that spanned a wide range of concerns. Today’s post draws from the same years but narrows its focus to the realm of marriage and divorce.[1] As with the first post, the … [Continue reading]
This week’s decision in Kenneth Brown v. Wisconsin Elections Commission catapulted the Writs all the way from the cellar to second place on the strength of a 13-point performance (8 for a brief and favorable outcome from Pines Bach and 5 for a brief … [Continue reading]
No decisions were filed this week--hence, no change in the standings. … [Continue reading]
As SCOWstats ranges back into the 1920s, beyond the point of living memory, cases turn up more frequently that have the aura of curiosities. Perhaps the facts seem quaint, the issues remote, or the analysis surprising—at any rate, something in the … [Continue reading]
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SCOWstats offers numerical analysis of the voting by Wisconsin Supreme Court justices on diverse issues over the past 101 years.
