scoca-is-taking-longer-to-decide-its-cases 
SCOCAblog
MAY 30, 2023
Overview The California Supreme Court is taking longer to issue fewer opinions compared with its past performance. In the 2022 review we showed that over the past 24 years the court’s unanimity rate steadily increased, while its opinion output steadily declined. The results show that this value has increased over time.
At the Lectern
JUNE 4, 2023
” The study says that recently, “enough cases are taking much longer that they are both increasing the average and less reasonably excludable as outliers.” ” On the other hand, SCOCAblog says the court “is resolving more cases,” but those resolutions are without opinions. .”
At the Lectern
OCTOBER 2, 2023
” SCOCAblog concludes: “it’s a fair criticism that our take on this issue is overly charitable. There’s a colorable argument that the court is not granting review in cases it should decide, taking too long to draft opinions, and deciding too few cases.
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