Today, we’re tracking average votes to affirm the Third District of the Appellate Court in civil cases before the Supreme Court, 1990-2019.

The average was 1.13 in 1990, 2.13 in 1991, 1.2 in 1992, 4.5 in 1993 and 2.75 in 1994. In 1995, average votes to affirm was 6.2. It dropped to 3.6 in 1996, 3.0 in 1997 and 2.89 in 1998 before rising to 5.0 in 1999.

Average votes to affirm the Third District was a perfect 7.0 in 2000 before going to 5.5 in 2001, 4.33 in 2002, 2.2 in 2003, 4.4 in 2004, 4.0 in 2005, 5.25 in 2006, 3.86 in 2007, 2.67 in 2008 and 2.8 in 2009.

For the most part, average votes to affirm the Third District has been a bit low in the past ten years. The average in 2010 was 2.67 and jumped to 5.0 in 2011 before falling to 0.5 in 2012 and 3.5 in 2013. The average was 7.0 in 2014 but zero in 2015. The average was 3.0 in 2016, 3.5 in 2017, zero in 2018 and 2.5 in 2019.

Join us back here next week, when we’ll be reviewing average votes to affirm the Fourth and Fifth Districts.

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