 Across some 150 cases involving business and civil law , Sotomayor 's rulings were generally unpredictable and not consistently pro @-@ business or anti @-@ business . Sotomayor 's influence in the federal judiciary , as measured by the number of citations of her rulings by other judges and in law review articles , increased significantly during the length of her appellate judgeship and was greater than that of some other prominent federal appeals court judges . Two academic studies showed that the percentage of Sotomayor 's decisions that overrode policy decisions by elected branches was the same as or lower than that of other circuit judges . 
