“What Were the Odds? A Year of Transition at SCOTX”

I saw some of you when I spoke last week at the UT State and Federal Appeals CLE. My presentation, as usual, looked at the Court through the lens of numbers. Giving this kind of talk in June is always a high-wire act, in the busiest month of the Court’s opinion season. Doubly so this year with the new petition rules.

Here are the slides:

I tried to cover both parallel tracks going on at the Court, with partial-term numbers about cases filed under the old petition rules and the new rules alike. Those precise, partial-term numbers are aging fast. But my speculative guesses about the future remain un-disproven just yet.