This week, we’re continuing our series, drilling down on the reversal rates of the Districts and Divisions of the Appellate Court by tracking the yearly average votes to affirm each court in civil cases. Today, we review the data for Division Five of the First District, and tomorrow we’ll be looking at Division Six.
Division Five had an average of zero in 1990. The average was 4 in 1991, 3.5 in 1992, 0.8 in 1993, 4.5 in 1994 and 2 in 1995. The Court decided no civil cases from Division Five in 1996 or 1997. The average was 2.75 votes in 1998 and zero in 1999.
The Supreme Court decided no civil cases from Division Five in 2000. The average votes to affirm was 3.75 in 2001, 3.5 in 2002, 6 in 2003, 3.75 in 2004 and 3 in 2005. The average fell to zero in 2006 and 2007 before rising to 5 in 2008. The average votes to affirm in 2009 was 2.5.
Average votes to affirm was zero in 2010 and 2011. The average rose to 3.5 in 2012, then 5 in 2013, 4.33 in 2014 and 4 in 2015. It was 0.4 in 2016, 2 in 2017, 6 in 2018 and 2 so far in 2019.
Join us back here next time as we review the data for Division Six.
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