Are the law firms that file the most cert petitions in the U.S. Supreme Court also the most successful at winning review?

The University of Southern California’s Adam Feldman and Alexander Kappner studied 93,000 cert petitions between 2001 and 2015 to try to glean what factors make a petition more or less likely to be granted. A firm’s success “with their aggregate cert filings does not guarantee success on a per-case basis,” according to the study.

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