This week, we’re continuing our review of the Court’s constitutional law docket by asking (1) how much of the Court’s docket consists of cases won below by one side or the other; (2) whether the Court has a significantly higher (or lower) reversal rate depending on who won below; and (3) whether the Court tends
Last week, we tracked the number of constitutional law cases on the civil side of the Court’s docket, year by year since 1990. This week, we’re looking deeper at the data. What kind of constitutional law cases has the Court tended to take, and has the Court tended to reverse more regularly, depending on who
Yesterday, we began our detailed look at the most common area of law on the Court’s civil and criminal dockets (and the area of law most frequently identified with courts of law resort) – constitutional law. Today, we’re beginning our review of the Court’s constitutional law cases on the criminal docket side.
In 1990, the
This week, we’re beginning an intensive look at the Court’s cases, divided by subject matter. Many people – especially non-lawyers – think of courts of last resort primarily in terms of constitutional law decisions. So let’s start there – the Illinois Supreme Court’s past twenty-seven years with constitutional law in both civil and criminal law.
Last time, we looked at whether the Court’s lag time – from the allowance of a petition for leave to appeal to oral argument, and from oral argument to decision – gives litigants a hint of what the Court’s decision is likely to be. We showed that although there’s no consistent relationship between lag time
Last week, we reviewed the basic data on lag times at the Court – how long has it typically taken, year after year, for civil and criminal cases to be argued and decided. This week, we’re looking at a different aspect of lag time – does it help predict the likely result? Is a case
Last time, we reviewed the lag time data for the Court’s civil cases between 2005 and 2017 – specifically, (1) grant of petition for leave to appeal to oral argument; and (2) oral argument to decision. This time, we’re looking at the Court’s experience with its criminal docket.
Once again, we have only the argument-to-decision
Last time, we were reviewing the Court’s treatment of cases with a dissent at the Appellate Court. This week, we’re reviewing the data on lag times at the Court.
In 2014, a joint project of the Court Management Committee of the Conference of Chief Justices and the Conference of State Court Administrators, in conjunction with
Yesterday, we began our further examination of the Court’s experience with cases with a dissent at the Appellate Court. We asked whether civil cases with a dissent were systematically more or less likely to be reversed than cases which were decided unanimously. Today, we’re asking the same question on the criminal side of the docket.
Last week, we reviewed the data on whether cases which were published below are more frequently reversed. This week, we’re reviewing a related issue: are cases with a dissent below more frequently reversed by the Supreme Court? If so, that might suggest that dissents at the Appellate Court aren’t just helpful in getting the Court’s