Over the past couple of weeks over at the California Supreme Court Review, we’ve been analyzing the California Supreme Court’s experience with certified questions. So today, we turn our attention to the same issue: how often does the Illinois Supreme Court decide certified questions?
The Court’s certified question docket is governed by Supreme Court
Yesterday, we reviewed Justice Theis’ question patterns in criminal cases between 2010 and 2016. Today, we ask what it’s possible to infer when Justice Theis asked the first question in criminal cases.
Justice Theis voted with the majority in 84 criminal affirmances and 102 criminal reversals. She wrote the majority opinion in fourteen of those
Last week, we reviewed the data from Justice Theis’ participation in oral arguments in civil cases since she joined the Court in 2010. This week, we turn our attention to Justice Theis’ record in criminal oral arguments.
Justice Theis voted with the majority in 84 criminal affirmances and 102 criminal reversals. She wrote the majority
Yesterday, we began our analysis of Justice Theis’ question patterns in civil cases. Today, we continue our work on Justice Theis’ civil arguments since taking office in 2010.
When voting in the majority of an affirmance, there’s a 32.88% chance that Justice Theis will ask the first question of appellants, but only a 15.07% chance
For the past two weeks, we’ve been reviewing the patterns in Chief Justice Fitzgerald’s questioning in civil and criminal cases between 2008 and his retirement in 2010. This week, we review the question patterns of his successor, Justice Mary Jane Theis.
Justice Theis voted with the majority in 73 civil affirmances and 105 civil reversals.
Last week, I was looking at our archives, pulling up old research, and I stumbled onto this two-year old post – my 500th on Appellate Strategist. Now that our other two blogs, Illinois Supreme Court Review and California Supreme Court Review, have been publishing for a while, I decided to check the dashboards there
Yesterday, we reviewed the data for Chief Justice Fitzgerald’s question pattern in criminal cases between 2008 and 2010. Today, we look at a different aspect of the data – was the Chief Justice more likely to ask the first question of either side, depending on how he was voting and whether he was writing an
Last week, we continued our analysis of the Court’s oral arguments between 2008 and 2016 with a look at former Chief Justice Fitzgerald’s patterns in civil cases during the two years before he retired, 2008-2010. This week, we turn our attention to Chief Justice Fitzgerald’s patterns in criminal cases.
In all, Chief Justice Fitzgerald voted
Yesterday, we began our review of the limited data from civil cases in which Chief Justice Fitzgerald both participated in oral argument and voted between 2008 and 2010. Today, we wrap up our look at the civil docket.
As we noted yesterday, the Chief Justice voted with the majority in 32 civil affirmances, writing the
Our review of the Court’s oral arguments between 2008 and 2016 continues this week with Chief Justice Thomas Fitzgerald. Since Chief Justice Fitzgerald retired in 2010, our data is more limited than it is for other Justices. Because we’re tracking correlations between questions and voting, we disregard the cases in 2010 for which the Chief