Yesterday, we reviewed our data for oral arguments in civil cases from 2008 through 2015. Today, we turn our attention to the Court’s criminal, quasi-criminal, juvenile and disciplinary docket.
In Table 413, we report the total questions asked by each Justice in criminal cases. Since 2008, the Court has asked 8,764 questions in criminal matters.
Today, we turn our attention back to the Court’s oral arguments. Over the next several weeks, we’ll be analyzing how the Court’s questioning patterns tend to differ in civil and criminal cases, based upon our database of every oral argument from 2008 through 2015.
First, the most basic question – total questions, Justice by Justice.
For the past two weeks, we’ve been analyzing the voting dynamics on the Illinois Supreme Court, determining which Justices voted together most and least often over time in non-unanimous cases. Today, we conclude our analysis with the criminal docket between 2010 and 2015.
Just as we saw on the civil side, Justice Burke’s closest match
For the past two weeks, we’ve been studying the voting dynamics of the Illinois Supreme Court, tracking which Justices voted together most (and least) often in non-unanimous civil and criminal cases. This week, we’ve arrived at the most recent data. Today, we’re taking a look at agreement rates in civil cases from 2010 to 2015.
Yesterday, we analyzed the agreement rates between all combinations of the Justices in non-unanimous civil cases between 2005 and 2009. Today, we turn our attention to the Court’s criminal docket during the same years.
We report the data for Chief Justice McMorrow, Justice Burke and Justice Garman in Table 404 below. Chief Justice McMorrow’s closest
Last week, we began our study of the Court’s voting dynamics. We analyzed agreement rates between all combinations of the Justices in non-unanimous civil and criminal cases between 2000 and 2004. This week, we’ll turn our attention to the second five years of the period, 2005 to 2009. We’ll begin with the Court’s civil cases.
Yesterday, we began our review of the Court’s voting dynamics, analyzing the Justices’ agreement rates in non-unanimous civil cases between 2000 and 2004. Today, we turn to the Court’s agreement rates in non-unanimous criminal cases.
We showed yesterday that Chief Justice McMorrow voted most often with Justice Freeman in civil cases. That was true on
Last week, we completed our comparison of the Justices’ majority opinions in civil and criminal cases. This week, we begin our study of the Court’s voting dynamics. Which Justices agreed most (and least) often? Today, we track how often every combination of Justices voted together in non-unanimous civil cases between 2000 and 2004.
In Table
Yesterday, we began our examination of the Court’s majority opinions in the past six years by analyzing the opinions in civil cases. Today, we turn our attention to the Court’s majority opinions criminal cases between 2010 and 2015.
We begin by once again reviewing the number of opinions written by each Justice. In 2010, Chief
For the past few weeks, we’ve been tracking the Justices’ individual majority opinions, looking at whether any of the Justices tend to write longer (or shorter) majority opinions. Today, we’ve reached the majority opinions in the Court’s civil cases between 2010 and 2015.
We begin as usual by reviewing the number of majority opinions written