A scan of state Supreme Court opinions since Justice Joan Orie Melvin joined the bench in 2010 shows a number of cases in which she was or would have been the deciding vote on a deeply divided bench.
The types of matters varied widely, including criminal, tax, products liability and negligent infliction of emotional distress cases, and in several of them Orie Melvin was either part of a 4-3 majority or absent from a 3-3 deadlock.
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