Take the Fifth

Unpublished decisions

We report after each month on interesting statistics from the data we generate from the daily opinion summaries from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and at the end of each court year (Oct.-Sept.) we will aggregate that–all of which provides useful insights into the inner workings of the Court, the relative … More March 2026 opinion statistics

Many thanks to all of you who have found value in these posts on daily Fifth Circuit opinion releases and the monthly and annual compilations of statistics that I mine from those releases. And curses to those of you who have said, “You should have a Substack,” because now there is one. It isn’t “Take … More Take the Fifth has spawned a new Substack: “Not Taking the Fifth”