Yesterday, we showed that between 2000 and 2004, the Illinois Supreme Court reviewed more liberal Appellate Court decisions than conservative ones in most areas of the civil law. Today, we address the question left unanswered by that analysis: how does the Court’s reversal rate vary among areas of the law, depending on whether the Appellate
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been analyzing the Illinois Supreme Court’s civil and criminal dockets, looking at the performance of individual Districts of the Appellate Court. Now, we’ll disaggregate the data divided into areas of the law and ask two questions: (1) Does the Court tend to take more liberal or conservative Appellate Court
Yesterday, we reviewed “true” reversal rates for each District of the Appellate Court in civil cases before the Illinois Supreme Court since 2007 – which we defined as the cases reversed by the Supreme Court divided by the total number of cases disposed of by the Court, both on the merits and in PLAs. Today,
In the past several weeks, we’ve been looking at the Illinois Supreme Court’s reversal rates of the Districts of the Appellate Court, and at how the Districts have fared in the past nine years with the Court’s handling of petitions for leave to appeal.
Today, we combine all that work into a new measure –
Yesterday, we looked at whether the rate at which the Illinois Supreme Court grants petitions for leave to appeal differs significantly depending on the time of year. We showed that it does – the Court’s overall grant rate tends to be lower in the fall than in the spring, and at its lowest during the
Last week, we addressed the statewide data from the Illinois Supreme Court’s resolution of petitions for leave to appeal. This week, we turn to a related question – does the time of year matter for your chances of getting a PLA granted?
In fact, the Court’s workload varies depending on the time of year, a
Yesterday, we reviewed the statewide data on the civil and criminal petitions for leave to appeal heard and resolved by the Illinois Supreme Court, dividing them into PLAs granted, denied with a supervisory order, and denied outright. Today, we turn to the District-by-District data.
In the title of this post, we ask whether the District
Last week, we wrapped up our review of the District-by-District reversal rates in civil and criminal cases at the Illinois Supreme Court. Today, we begin a close look at the Court’s experience with Petitions for Leave to Appeal, or “PLAs.”
First, a few ground rules. The data is derived from the materials posted under “Leave
Today, we conclude the first stage in our review of how the Districts and Divisions of the Appellate Court have fared at the Illinois Supreme Court with a look at the Appellate Court’s reversal rate in criminal cases between 2011 and 2015.
In Table 277 below, we report the overall statewide reversal rate for criminal
Last week, we addressed the reversal rates for civil and criminal cases at the Illinois Supreme Court between 2006 and 2010. Today, we turn to the final five years of our study period, 2011-2015.
Statewide reversal rates in civil cases were in the same range between 2011 and 2015 that they were during the previous