Last week, we reviewed the data on how often public entities were parties in civil cases at the Court. Of course, criminal cases are a different matter; the State is a party to every appeal. So this week, we address a slightly different question: how many of the Court’s criminal appeals involve appeals by the
Yesterday, we looked at how often governmental entities have appeared as parties in civil cases at the Illinois Supreme Court. Today, we address the governmental entities’ winning percentage.
Governmental entities won sixty percent of the time in 1990 as petitioners. They won half the time in 1991, 60% in 1992 and 50% in 1993. In
For the past several weeks, we’ve looked at the Court’s record with death penalty appeals. This week and next, we’re looking at the Court’s record with parties that are governmental entities.
In Table 559, we report the total number of petitioners who were government entities between 1990 and 2004. Governmental petitioners varied widely from 1990
Yesterday, we reviewed the individual Justices’ voting records in death penalty cases for the years 1990 through 1999. Today, we’re looking at the Justices’ voting records for the years 2000 through abolition in 2010.
Partial reversals with the sentence affirmed were quite rare during the years 2000 through 2004. Justice Miller led the Court, voting
Last week, we discussed the data on how often the Justices of the Court voted with the majority in the Illinois Supreme Court’s death penalty cases between 1990 and 2010 (after which the death penalty was abolished). This week, we review the individual Justices’ votes.
In Table 551, we report the fraction of each Justice’s
Yesterday, we began our analysis of the individual Justices’ voting records in death penalty cases – specifically, how often each Justice voted with the majority. Today, we’ll review the data for the years 2000 through 2010. First, the years 2000 through 2004. Justices McMorrow (34 cases), Rarick (4 cases) and Bilandic (17 cases) voted with
For the past several weeks, we’ve been comparing the death penalty jurisprudence of the Illinois and California Supreme Courts. Having reviewed the county-by-county reversal rates last week, this week we’re looking at the individual Justices. We’ll review two indices of the Justices’ views and influence on the Court: first, the percentage of cases where the
Yesterday, we began reviewing the data on majority opinions in death penalty cases from 1990 through the Court’s last death penalty appeal in 2010. Today, we look at a related question: did the Court’s majority opinions tend to run longer when the Court was partially or fully reversing?
Interestingly, across the entire twenty year period,
For the past two weeks, we’ve been studying death penalty appeals, both here and on the California Supreme Court Review blog. This week, we turn our attention to the authors of the Court’s majority opinions in death penalty cases.
Once again, we divide the cases into four results: (1) affirmance; (2) partial reversal with sentence
Yesterday, we announced the completion of a substantial expansion to the Illinois Supreme Court’s database. Today, we review the full list of data points included in the database.
Join us back here tomorrow as we resume our analysis of the Court’s death penalty jurisprudence.
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