HanabataDays, you are playing around with percentages. Look at the whole numbers involved.  From 1999 to 2008, 660 circuit court cases were appealed to the Supreme Court, of which 175 or 26.51% came from the Ninth Circuit.  There are 12 circuit courts, yet a disproportionately high number came from one court, the Ninth District.   You also failed to consider cases vacated by the Supreme Court that voided decisions of circuit courts.  There were 469 cases reversed and vacated by the Supreme Court, of which 140 or 29.8% were from the Ninth District which was disproportionately higher than the percentages of other districts.  Of the 175 cases from the Ninth Circuit, 140 were reversed or vacated, which is 80% and much higher than the rates of all other courts except for the Federal Circuit, which had a rate of 83.3%.  The actual numbers were 30 cases appealed, 25 reversed or vacated.           How did you determine the median reversal rate was 68.3% and that the 9th's was 7% lower?