Over the past few weeks, we’ve looked at how often the State is the appellant in civil and criminal cases at the Supreme Court, and at the distribution of the Court’s cases among the Districts and Divisions of the Appellate Court. This week, we turn our attention to a new topic: what areas of law
Yesterday, we reviewed the origin of the Court’s criminal docket for the years 2005 through 2010. Today, we finish the journey – the years 2011 through 2017.
One hundred and one of the 244 criminal, quasi-criminal and disciplinary cases the Court has heard 2011-2017 came from Chicago’s First District – 41.39%. The Court decided eight
Last week, we began looking at which Districts and Divisions of the Appellate Court produced the Supreme Court’s criminal, quasi-criminal and attorney disciplinary docket for the years 1990 through 2003. This week, we’re looking at the rest of our study period. First up, 2004 through 2010.
For the years 2004 through 2010, 131 of the
Yesterday, we began our journey through the Appellate Court designations for criminal cases with the years 1990 through 1996. Today, we address the years 1997 through 2003.
The Court decided three cases from Division One of the First District in 2002, two in 2000 and 1997 and one in 1998. The Court decided four cases
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been looking at how the Supreme Court’s civil docket is distributed among the Districts and Divisions of the Appellate Court. This week and next, we’ll turn our attention to the Court’s criminal caseload.
We’ve speculated in past posts that population distribution might be a rough approximator for how the
Yesterday, we reviewed the year-by-year data for how the Court’s civil caseload was distributed in the Appellate Court for the years 2004 through 2010. Today, we review the data for the years 2011 through 2017.
Since 2011, the Court has decided exactly 100 cases originating in Chicago’s First District – 43.67% of its civil caseload.
Last week, we began our review of how the Court’s civil cases are distributed among the Districts and Divisions of the Appellate Court. We began by covering the years 1999 through 2003. This week, we address the more recent years in our study period – first up, the Court’s civil docket from 2004 through 2010.
Yesterday, we began our study of where in the Appellate Court the Court has drawn its civil docket each year. Today, we’re reviewing the years 1997 through 2003.
For the years 1990 through 1996, cases from Cook County’s First District were consistently about ten percentage points less of the civil docket than one would expect
This week, we answer a new question in our study of the expanded Illinois Supreme Court data library: how have the Court’s civil cases been distributed among the various parts of the Appellate Court?
As of 1990, Cook County accounted for 44.66% of the total population of Illinois. So if caseload followed population distribution, one
Yesterday, we reviewed the data about how the Court’s criminal docket has been divided between cases in which the State was the appellant and defense appeals. Today, we look at the State’s year-by-year winning percentage in each role.
For the years 1990 through 1995, the State’s winning percentage in criminal appeals varied up and down