Transparent, replicable, and grounded in constitutional fidelity — not partisan loyalty.
Your property rights, your children's schools, the integrity of your elections, and the limits on government power all depend on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. These justices decide cases that reshape the legal landscape more consequentially than most legislation — yet unlike legislators, they face almost no structured public accountability between elections.
Weighted across every opinion authored or joined.
Performance in the term's ten highest-stakes decisions.
Respect for stare decisis and consistent application of established legal principles across cases.
Fidelity to the constitutional roles of legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
Interpretation grounded in the actual text and original meaning of statutes and constitutional provisions.
Resisting the temptation to substitute the court's policy preferences for those of the elected branches.
Protection of constitutional rights and recognition of the people as sovereign over the government.
Every published opinion from the term is read in full and classified by category and authorship.
Each opinion is scored across the five metrics using a transparent, replicable rubric.
Scores are weighted by metric and combined with critical-case alignment for a composite score.
Methodology and underlying data are published openly so any score can be independently verified.