Yesterday, we began reviewing the trial courts which have produced the Court’s civil docket, beginning with the years 1990 through 1994. Today, we review the Court’s criminal docket for the same years.
In 1990, the Court decided twenty-six criminal, quasi-criminal, juvenile and disciplinary cases from Cook County. The Court decided eight disciplinary and licensing cases
Last week, we concluded our analysis of the government’s winning percentage, year by year and one area of law at a time, in civil cases at the Court. This week, we begin reviewing the trial courts from which the Court’s civil and criminal dockets are drawn.
In Table 606, we report the data for civil
For the past two weeks, we’ve been reviewing the government’s winning percentage as the appellant in civil cases at the Illinois Supreme Court. Today, we finish our review with the years 2011 through 2016.
In 2011, the government won its only domestic relations case as an appellant. Governmental entities won two of three cases in
Last week, we began reviewing the government’s winning percentage in civil appeals. We began by reviewing the data for the years 1990-2003. This week, we address the more recent years, beginning with the period 2004-2010.
For the beginning of this period, the government fared somewhat worse in both constitutional law and government and administrative law
Yesterday, we began looking at governmental entities’ won-loss record in civil cases by area of law. Interestingly, governmental entities had significantly more trouble in government and administrative law cases than they did in the previous seven years. In 1997, governmental entities win two thirds of their tort cases and two thirds of their constitutional law
For the past few weeks, we’ve been studying appeals brought to the Illinois Supreme Court by governmental entities – specifically, which areas do governmental entities tend to most often appeal in civil cases? This week, we begin our look at the natural follow-up question: how often do governmental entities win those appeals?
We begin with
Earlier today, I had the pleasure of joining the Appellate Lawyers’ Association lunchtime meeting to talk about Litigation Analytics and Appellate Law: What the Numbers Tell Us About the Illinois and California Supreme Courts. Attached here is a copy of the Powerpoint for the Presentation: Data Analytics 11 15 2017, and here’s a recommended
Yesterday, we continued tracking the areas of law, year by year, in which governmental entities appealed in civil cases. Today, we’re completing our review with the years 2011 through 2016.
Once again, the leading areas for governmental entities appeals were government and administrative law with 21 and constitutional law with 10. The court decided five
Last week, we began reviewing the subject matter areas in which governmental entities appealed to the Illinois Supreme Court between 1990 and 2003. This week, we’ll turn our attention to the years 2004 through 2016.
For the years 2004 through 2010, governmental and administrative law was the most common source of appeals by government entities
Yesterday, we began looking at a new question in our ongoing studies – what areas of law does the State most often appeal in civil cases? We began in our last post with the years 1990 through 1996. Today, we turn to the years 1997 through 2003.
For the first part of our study period,