claim: wisconsin's supreme court justices are "deciding fewer opinions in civil and criminal cases than they used to."
author: ed fallone
evidence_1: aug 3, 2016 ... 3, 2016 – the wisconsin supreme court issued 43 opinions this term, not  including attorney discipline cases, which is 19 percent fewer than the 2014-15  term ... in an exclusive interview with the state bar of wisconsin, justice prosser  talked ... in addition, the court only decided one 4-3 decision last term.
evidence_2: fallone. ed fallone, a law professor at marquette university in milwaukee, is  running for the wisconsin supreme court in 2013. ... wisconsin's supreme court  justices are "deciding fewer opinions in civil and criminal cases than they used to. ".
evidence_3: state courts handle more than 90 percent of the united states' judicial business.  ... attention is paid to the u.s. supreme court, it decides fewer than 100 cases  each year, ... in addition, just as the u.s. supreme court decides cases that have  ... civil and human rights, environmental protections and the criminal justice  system.
evidence_4: of wisconsin-madison. we would like to .... court fails to grant certiorari in cases  that call for review, it leaves the law unclear.6 .... today's supreme court decides  markedly fewer cases than its .... take, for example, the court's criminal  procedure, civil liberties ..... they used data on every justice from the burger  court era.
evidence_5: former justice william bablitch, who retired in 2003 but still practices law, does  ... greg pokrass spent almost 25 years as a supreme court commissioner ... the  level of acrimony was “pretty bad” then, he says, and appears even worse now.  .... the court issued only 64 opinions in civil and criminal cases and only 87 total ...