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Another thing about reversal rates...

...is that the sample is biased. Those cases accepted for review by a higher court and make it through the pre-review or appeal process are already, by definition, controversial cases. They would never even have made it that far if they weren't already borderline decisions generating a lot of interest.

A fairer measure of judicial incompetence would be the percentage of all her cases which were overturned by higher courts.

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