Law.com has an interesting article on how the Ninth Circuit is faring on the Supreme Court docket–“9th Circuit Dominates Top Docket“:
Ninth Circuit appeals accounted for about one-third of the Supreme Court’s docket in the term that ended Tuesday — 25 of 78 cases. Hellman said about one-sixth of petitions for certiorari were from the 9th Circuit, meaning that the Supreme Court is “taking cases from the 9th Circuit at a much higher rate than you would expect.”
What is the reason for the abundance of Ninth Circuit cases under review? Legal scholars may differ, but according to Thomas Goldstein of Goldstein & Howe in Washington, D.C. “[t]he circuit is not going to be able to rid itself of its reputation. . . It has been tarred and feathered as being liberal in the extreme. The most it can hope for is being liberal in moderation.”
For a chart of Ninth Circuit cases reviewed by the Supreme Court and their outcomes, you can access “How the West was Reversed.”