The dissent rates measure the percentage of published opinions in which a particular justice cast a dissenting vote from the majority opinion. It is a measure of the justice’s voting record, not his or her production of dissenting opinions. A dissenting vote is included regardless of whether the justice wrote a dissenting opinion or joined in the dissenting opinion of another justice. A justice’s authorship of dissenting opinions is tracked in the productivity tables (Part A, supra). The rate for each year covers the period of April 1 of the previous year through March 30 of the year indicated. The AVERAGE rate includes all the years reported.
|
JUSTICE |
1997 |
1998 |
1999 |
2000 |
2001 |
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
AVG |
|
GEORGE |
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
8 |
4 |
5 | 3 | 2 |
3.11 |
|
BAXTER |
14 |
13 |
16 |
5 |
8 |
6 |
8 | 9 | 7 |
9.55 |
|
BROWN |
15 |
15 |
20 |
17 |
11 |
9 |
15 | 17 | 10 |
14.22 |
|
CHIN |
6 |
8 |
13 |
6 |
5 |
2 |
10 | 7 | 2 |
6.22 |
|
KENNARD |
29 |
21 |
21 |
23 |
17 |
11 |
15 | 14 | 13 |
18.22 |
|
MOSK |
24 |
21 |
27 |
25 |
13 |
26 |
22.7 |
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|
MORENO |
11 |
12 | 6 | 3 |
8.0 |
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|
WERDEGAR |
10 |
8 |
12 |
13 |
11 |
16 |
4 | 10 | 6 |
10.0 |
