This week, we’re continuing our series of posts looking more closely at how the Districts and Divisions of the Appellate Court have fared at the Supreme Court by tracking the average votes to affirm in civil cases year by year. Today, we’re looking at the Second District, and tomorrow the Third.

The Second District averaged 4.83 votes in 1990, 2.83 in 1991, 4.36 in 1992, 2.33 in 1993 and 2.6 in 1994. In 1995, the average votes to affirm was 2.0. The average increased to 4.6 in 1996, 2.83 in 1997, 3.83 in 1998 and 4.4 in 1999.

Average votes to affirm the Second District was 2.5 in 2000, 3.0 in 2001, 2.17 in 2002, 2.2 in 2003, 3.17 in 2005, 4.27 in 2006, 1.75 in 2007, 3.27 in 2008, but only 0.88 in 2009.

Average votes to affirm was 2.5 in 2010, 3.5 in 2011, 1.14 in 2012, 4.17 in 2013, 1.25 in 2014, 5.25 in 2015, 1.0 in 2016, 5.5 in 2017, 3.0 in 2018 and zero so far this year.

Join us back here tomorrow as we review the data from the Third District.

Image courtesy of Flickr by Marco Verch (no changes).