SCOCAblog, the online publication of the California Constitution Center at Berkeley Law and of the UC Law Journal, takes a deep dive into Supreme Court opinion lengths — both time to decision and word count — and numbers.
One of the study’s conclusions is that “the noncapital docket is the main driver of the court’s falling decision output and the rising annual decision word count, while the automatic appeals alone are chiefly responsible for the court’s increasing average decision time.”
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