Judge analytics aggregates a judge's decisions on categories of motions, average time to ruling, trial setting practices, and case disposition patterns from docket data.
Outputs typically include grant rates for summary judgment, dismissal, and discovery motions, and median time to disposition.
Alternative Names:
Judicial Analytics, Judge Data
Why it Matters?
The useful applications are procedural rather than predictive: knowing that a judge rarely grants summary judgment in a category, or takes many months to rule on dispositive motions, informs whether to invest in the motion and how to plan the schedule. Sample sizes for individual judges are frequently small enough that grant rate percentages should be treated as directional. Several jurisdictions outside the United States prohibit judicial analytics entirely.
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What does judge analytics actually tell you?
How reliable are individual judge statistics?
