Last week, we began analyzing the Justices’ individual records, tracking whether any Justices tended to write longer or shorter majority opinions than other Justices do. Today, we address the Court’s criminal opinions between 2005 and 2009.
In Table 390, we review the distribution of majority opinions between 2005 and 2009 in the criminal docket. Chief
Last week, we turned our attention to the individual Justices’ records, analyzing whether any of the Justices tend to consistently write either longer or shorter majority opinions than other members of the Court do. Today, we turn our attention to the Court’s civil opinions between 2005 and 2009.
In Table 388, we review the data
Yesterday, we began our analysis of the individual Justices’ track records with respect to majority opinions, beginning with civil opinions between 2000 and 2004. Today, we compare that data to the Justices’ opinions in criminal cases during the same years.
Once again, we begin by reviewing the data we first reported a few weeks ago
Today, we begin a new area in our analysis of the individual Justices’ records. Do any of the Justices tend to write longer (or shorter) majority opinions, and how do the majority opinions in civil cases compare to the criminal majorities? We begin by considering the civil opinions between 2000 and 2004.
For context, we
Yesterday, we reviewed the frequency with which the Justices of the Illinois Supreme Court voted in the majority in divided civil cases between 2008 and 2015. Today, we turn our attention to the Court’s non-unanimous criminal cases for the same years.
We report the data in Table 383 below. In 2008, Justice Fitzgerald led the
Last week, we turned our attention to tracking how often each Justice voted with the majority in cases in which the Court reached a divided decision. In Part 1 of our series, we addressed the years 2000 through 2007. Today, we turn our attention to the Court’s civil docket between 2008 and 2015.
In Table
Yesterday, we turned our attention to determining which Justices most often voted with the majority in non-unanimous civil decisions between 2000 and 2007. Today, we address the same question for non-unanimous criminal cases.
The Court decided an unusually high number of non-unanimous criminal cases in 2000, so the Table shows spikes that year across the
Last week, we wrapped up our consideration of which Justices of the Illinois Supreme Court most often spoke for the Court in the majority opinion. Today, we approach the issue of the individual Justices’ influence in another way: which Justices most often voted with the majority in non-unanimous cases?
The data for civil cases between
For the past two weeks, we’ve been tracking the history, year-by-year, of which Justices most frequently author the Court’s majority opinion in civil and criminal cases, both when the Court is divided and when the Court is unanimous. Today, we turn our attention to the Court’s criminal docket for the years 2010 through 2015.
For
For the past two weeks, we’ve been assessing the changing patterns, year by year, in which Justices most frequently speak for the Court in majority opinions on both the civil and criminal sides of the docket. Today, we address the civil docket between 2010 and 2015.
In Table 372 below, we report the total majority