beejay

We’ve all heard that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has the most decisions overturned by the Supreme Court. (Even if this is true, I don’t think you can argue that it means anything about any particular decision.)

However, I’m interested in what the data actually shows. Is there any source for number of decisions made, number appealed to the Supreme Court, number accepted for consideration and number overturned? By circuit and by year?

The Supreme Court accepts such a small number of cases each year that any differences might not be statistically significant, but it would interesting to see…

Shadowy Man

I think the ninth circuit oversees the largest population, so I think they see the most cases.

So, the real question is what fraction of the ninth circuit's cases get overturned by the Supreme Court?