Yesterday, we tested whether publication at the Appellate Court has any impact on a civil case’s reversal rate at the Supreme Court. The answer is no – published Appellate Court decisions on the civil side are not consistently reversed at a higher or lower rate than unpublished decisions. Today, we test the same question on
Last week, we looked at the conventional wisdom which holds that the Supreme Court only reviews published decisions from the Appellate Court. We showed that in fact, Rule 23 orders (the Illinois term for unpublished decisions) are not unheard of on the Court’s civil docket – in a typical year, twenty to forty percent of
Yesterday, we looked at how large a share of the Court’s civil docket since 1990 has been accounted for by cases which were published at the Appellate Court. Although there have been spikes in both directions from time to time, we showed that typically, 60-80% of the court’s civil cases were published below. Today, we’re
Last time, we looked at the data on cases which had a dissenter at the Appellate Court, and whether they’re more likely to have at least one dissenter at the Supreme Court. This week, we’re looking at a new question – how much of the court’s civil and criminal dockets consists of decisions which were
Yesterday, we looked at the year-by-year data on the civil side of the docket, asking whether a dissent at the Appellate Court tends to indicate that one or more dissenters are likely at the Supreme Court. Today, we’re looking at the same question on the criminal side.
In Table 676, we report the absolute numbers
Last time, we tracked the year-by-year data, testing the proposition that most of the Court’s cases are sufficiently “close calls” to have brought a dissent at the Appellate Court. This week, we’re testing another proposition – does dissent at the Appellate Court suggest that there’s going to be one or more dissenters at the Supreme
Last time, we looked at the share, year by year, of the Court’s civil docket accounted for by decisions which brought a dissent at the Court of Appeal. Today, we’re looking at the data for the criminal docket.
The Court decided fifteen criminal cases in 1990 and 1991 which were divided below. The Court decided
This week, we’re beginning a new topic in our ongoing study of the Court’s decision making. One often hears that unless there’s a dissent at the Appellate Court level, there’s no chance that the Supreme Court will agree to hear the case. So – how true is that? How much of the Supreme Court’s docket
Yesterday, we reviewed the overall data for the period 1990 through 2017 of the originating counties for the Supreme Court’s civil docket. Today, we’re looking at the Court’s criminal docket.
Cook County accounted for 41.46% of the Court’s criminal docket between 1990 and 2017 – a slightly less predominant position than in the civil docket.
Over the past several weeks, we’ve been tracking the county trial courts which have produced the Supreme Court’s civil and criminal dockets between 1990 and 2017. This week, we’re reviewing the overall data for the entire period.
Between 1990 and 2017, Cook County accounted for 44.68% of the Court’s civil cases. Du Page County produced