Yesterday, we continued our examination of the Illinois Supreme Court’s civil and criminal dockets, addressing the areas of law on both sides of the docket in 2005 and 2006. Today, we turn to the next three years, 2007-2009.
Tort cases were down slightly in 2007, both as a fraction of the civil docket (19.51%) and
Last week, we began our review of the principal areas of law from which the Illinois Supreme Court’s civil and criminal dockets have been drawn, addressing the years 2000 through 2004. Today, we continue our investigation with the second five years of our period – 2005 through 2009.
In Table 201 below, we chart the
Yesterday, we began our review of the Illinois Supreme Court’s civil and criminal dockets, analyzing the primary areas of the law from which the Court’s caseload is drawn. Today, we address the years 2002-2004.
The civil docket data for 2002 is reported in Table 195 below. Tort law was up substantially from 2001 to 2002,
Last week, we finished comparing where in the state the Supreme Court’s civil and criminal dockets have been drawn from between 2000 and 2015. Today, we begin a new subject, comparing the two dockets by the area of law involved.
In Table 190 below, we report the data for the two leading areas of law
Yesterday, we continued our review of the geographic origins of the Illinois Supreme Court’s docket with a look at the Court’s civil and criminal caseload in the years 2010-2012. Today, we conclude our analysis with a look at the past three years, 2013-2015.
The Court’s civil docket from Cook County dropped from 19 cases in
Last week, we compared the geographical sources of the Illinois Supreme Court’s civil and criminal dockets during the years 2005-2009. Today, we begin our examination of the following six years of our period of study, 2010-2016.
Two-thirds of the civil docket in 2010 arose from Cook County – 22 cases in all. Kane and Sangamon
Originally published on Law360, Feb. 3, 2016. Posted with permission.
For the past three years, we’ve taken a close statistical look at the previous year’s decisions from the Illinois Supreme Court to see what insights could be gained about the justices’ voting patterns and decision making dynamics. (View the 2012 analysis here, 2013
Yesterday, we reviewed the originating counties for the Illinois Supreme Court’s civil and criminal dockets for the years 2005-2007. Today, we turn to the years 2008 and 2009.
The data for the civil docket in 2008 is reported below in Table 174. Cook County’s share of the civil docket fell in 2008 to 38.1% of
Last week, we began reviewing where the Illinois Supreme Court’s civil and criminal dockets originated from during the first five years of our study period (2000-2004). Today and tomorrow, we review the second five years of the period.
The data for the civil docket in 2005 is reported in Table 168 below. Cook County’s share
Yesterday, we reviewed the geographic sources of the Illinois Supreme Court’s civil docket in the first five years of our study period from 2000 to 2004. Today, we compare the originating counties for the criminal docket during the same years. We conclude that in many years early in the twenty-first century, Cook County did not