This time, we’re reviewing the average votes to affirm at the Supreme Court for civil cases from the Fifth District. The Fifth’s average votes to affirm remained under four throughout the nineties: 2.36 (1990), 1.89 (1991), 1.55 (1992), 3.29 (1993), 2.64 (1994), 1.38 (1995), 1.75 (1996), 2.14 (1997), 2.63 (1998) and 1.17 (1999).

Average votes to affirm was 3.33 in 2000, 1.6 in 2001 and 2.88 in 2002 before rising to 3.5 in 2003 and 3.57 in 2004. In 2005, average votes to affirm was 1.25. In 2006, it rose to 2.86 and the next year, the average was 3.5. Average votes to affirm was zero in 2008 and 0.14 in 2009.

In 2010, average votes to affirm the Fifth District was 1.75. It rose to 2.33 votes in 2011 before falling to 1 in 2012 and zero in 2013 and 2014. The average was 1.33 in 2015. In 2016, average votes to affirm the Fifth District was 5.2. In 2017, the average was again zero. Last year the average was 1.5 and so far in 2019, it has been 2.33.

Join us back here next week as we begin our review of average votes to affirm in criminal cases.

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