Last week, we began our examination of the Illinois Supreme Court’s lag time on civil cases in unanimous and non-unanimous cases. This week, we turn to the Court’s criminal, quasi-criminal, juvenile and disciplinary cases.
Interestingly, criminal cases are under submission for less time, on average, for nearly every year since 2000 than the comparable numbers
Yesterday, we began our analysis of the average time under submission at the Illinois Supreme Court for civil cases. Today, we probe further the question of what can be predicted from time under submission by considering the year-by-year data.
In Table 237 below, we report the lag times for divided and unanimous civil decisions at
Today we turn to another phase of our analysis of the Illinois Supreme Court’s decision making, asking what we can predict from the time a case has been under submission between oral argument and decision.
In Table 235, we report the overall data for civil cases. The lag time at the Court has been consistently
Yesterday, we began our discussion of the impact of publication at the Appellate Court on the Illinois Supreme Court’s civil and criminal dockets. We analyzed whether decisions which were published below – presumably, the decisions more open to disagreement – were more likely to lead to dissenting opinions before the Court. Today, we address the
Last week, we began our analysis of the impact of publication at the Appellate Court level on the Illinois Supreme Court’s civil and criminal dockets. Today, we look at a related question – are published Appellate Court decisions a good predictor that the Illinois Supreme Court’s decision on the case will be divided? One would
Last week we concluded our examination of the question of how much of the Illinois Supreme Court’s civil and criminal dockets comes from cases which sparked a dissent at the Appellate Court. Today, we turn to a similar question: how much of the Court’s docket involves review of unpublished (and non-precedential ) Rule 23 orders?
Yesterday, we began our investigation of the importance of dissents at the Appellate Court for litigation at the Illinois Supreme Court. We demonstrated that the often-heard claim that obtaining review at the Court is impossible without an Appellate Court dissent isn’t true, either on the civil or the criminal side. Today, we address a related
Last week, we wrapped up our review of the areas of law addressed by the Illinois Supreme Court in its civil and criminal dockets, year by year from 2000 through 2015. Today we begin a new topic – dissents at the Appellate Court. One frequently hears that there’s little chance of getting a PLA granted
Today, we conclude our trip through the areas of law from which the Illinois Supreme Court has drawn its civil and criminal dockets over the past sixteen years with our review of the years 2013-2015.
As you can see from the Table below, the striking thing about the Court’s civil docket in 2013 was its
For the past two weeks, we’ve been tracking the areas of law covered in the Illinois Supreme Court’s civil and criminal dockets since 2000. This week, we’ll conclude this issue, beginning with a look at the years 2010-2012.
We begin with the year-by-year figures for the two leading subjects on each side of the docket.