Statistical Study Of Court Cases Coursework Example

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Discussion Forum #2
This presentation is a demonstration of the court cases presented to Hamilton County judges over a three years period. There were over 182,000 cases that 38 judges in the municipal, domestic relations and common plea courts. The objective of this statistical study is to assess the decision of the judges and their capacity to make mistakes. By using the understanding of probability, the judges are ranked to assess the likelihood of make decisions that can result to appeals.
Ranking based on the type of court

Figure 1: Cases presented in the Common pleas court

Figure 2: Cases presented in the domestic relations court

Figure 3: Cases presented the municipal court
In all the three courts, the number of cases disposed of was the highest. The municipal court had the highest number of cases presented while the domestic court had the lowest. In the municipal and common pleas courts, there was a proportionate number of cases dismissed, appealed and those reversed while in domestic courts, the decisions did not follow a specific trend. Therefore, there was a high probability that dismissed cases in common pleas and municipal courts will be appealed. However, the number of appealed and reversed cases in domestic court increased towards the third year but dropped in the fourth year.
Ranking based on the type of case

Table 1: ranking on the highest to lowest number of cases disposed of by judges in the common pleas court.

Table 2: Ranking on the highest to lowest number of cases disposed of by judges in the Domestic relations court.

Table 3: Ranking on the highest to lowest number of cases disposed of by judges in the municipal court.According to the three tables presented, the results can be extrapolated to evaluate the most likely direction that a court can take based on the individual judge handling the matter. For example, judge Mallory was more likely to dismiss a case in the Municipal courts based on historical performance of disposing of cases previously brought to him. Similarly, in the common pleas court, R. Winkler cases had the lowest chances of being appealed after dismissal, and therefore the probability of appeal was low.