This week, we’re reviewing average votes to affirm in civil cases for Division Three of the First District of the Appellate Court.

Division Three was in majority territory only one year in the 1990s: 4.2 votes, 1997.  Every other year, the average has been below 4: 3 (1990 & 1991), 1.83 (1992), 3.5 (1993), 1.5 (1994), 3 (1995), 0.6 (1996), 2.67 (1998) and 3.33 (1999).

Division Three fared better from 2000 to 2009, averaging a majority to affirm in five of ten years: 4 (2001), 4.67 (2002 & 2004), 4 (2006) and 4.33 (2007).  In 2000, the average was 0.67 votes.  In 2003, it was 2.75 votes.  In 2005, the average was 3 votes.  In 2008, the average was 0.5 votes and in 2009, all the civil cases reviewed were unanimously reversed – average votes to affirm, zero.

But there’s been a downturn over the past ten years.  Average votes to affirm were 3.4 in 2011 and 3 in 2014.  The average was 2.33 votes in 2010, 2013, 2015 and 2017.  The average was one vote in 2018 and zero in 2012.  The Court decided no civil Cases from Division 3 in 2016 or so far in 2019.

Join us back here on Wednesday as we review the data for Division 4.

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