Kansas Supreme Court

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In Attorney General Kris Kobach's testimony of Feb 25, 2025 he stated
KansasStates other
than Kansas*
Cases submitted (petitioned) to the U.S. Supreme Court for review
since 2007:
91
Data from SupremeCourt.gov
(link to local analytic code) 		7095
Data from SupremeCourt.gov
(link to local analytic code)
Review granted rate for petitions from State Supreme Courts
to the U.S. Supreme Court:
11 / 91 = 12.09%* 228 / 7095 = 3.21%
Overturn rate (merits reversal rate) of petitions reviewed
by the U.S. Supreme Court:
83.33%†
(5/6)
(Data saved from SupremeCourtDatabase.org)		 75.78%
(97/133)
(Data and calculations saved from SupremeCourtDatabase.org)

Overall rate of reversal (approximated):
12.09% × 83.33% ≈ 10.1%‡3.21% × 72.93% ≈ 2.3%
Confirmed minimum rate of reversal:
5 / 91 = 5.5%97 / 7004 ≈ 1.4%
Notes:
* Kansas's 12.09% review rate for petitions is the highest of any state examined.
† Kansas's 83.3% reversal rate is insignificantly higher than the mean rate of 75.8% for the other 46 states analyzed as this is based on only 6 cases reviewed.
‡ Kansas's 10.1% reversal rate is significantly higher than the mean rate of 2.3% for the other 46 states analyzed; however, this is mostly due to Kansas's higher rate of being granted review to cases petitioned to the Supreme Court.
  1. In this current analysis, all states include 47. New York, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee records have not yet been parsed from the PDFs available at https://SupremeCourt.gov
  2. Analysis of cases chosen for review is from SupremeCourtDatabase.org (hosted by Washington University in St. Louis. You may be alerted that your web connection to this site is not secure)