Last time we began investigating whether the Illinois Supreme Court often accepts summary judgments for review on its civil docket, since (at least in theory), such cases present cleaner, purely legal issues for review.
Now we turn to a slightly different issue. Since summary judgments should present clear legal issues with little room for factual
In our last several posts, we’ve been addressing the jurisdictional origins of the Illinois Supreme Court’s civil docket – does the Court prefer final judgments, or does it often agree to review interlocutory decisions?
In this post, we turn to a slightly different subject. Do summary judgments often reach the Court, since they present cleaner,
We’ve been looking at the sources of appellate jurisdiction for the Illinois Supreme Court’s civil docket. Does the Court prefer to review final decisions with fully formed records? How often does the Court review interlocutory decisions?
Between 2000 and 2004, Rule 301 appeals comprised between sixty and seventy percent of the Court’s civil docket.
Between
In our last post, we began looking at the sources of appellate jurisdiction on the Illinois Supreme Court’s civil docket. Does the Court mostly review final decisions? If the Court frequently hears interlocutory appeals on its civil docket, does it show a preference for any particular kind of interlocutory appeal – constitutional cases or appeals
The most fundamental rule of appellate jurisdiction in Illinois is Supreme Court Rule 301, which makes “[e]very final judgment of a circuit court” appealable “as of right.” Rule 301 operates in cases which have passed through the appellate system in the usual way, first being decided by one of the five districts of the Appellate
The composition of the docket of any appellate court of discretionary jurisdiction is a matter of interest to both academic researchers and practicing appellate specialists.
A number of different studies in the academic literature argue that changes in appellate courts’ dockets reflect changes in the nature of American law.[1] For example, property matters and
We begin our analysis by selecting the parameters of the data library. Since this research is intended primarily as a tool for civil appellate practice in full-service firms like mine, we limit the scope of the cases we study in order to ensure that trends elsewhere in the law do not obscure the Court’s decision-making
Appellate lawyers are to a considerable degree in the business of anticipating the views and inclinations of appellate judges and justices. At every phase of litigation, whether it be selecting cases which should (or should not) be brought before an appellate court, to crafting arguments in a way most likely to garner the votes of
Academics in various disciplines have been developing sophisticated tools for analyzing the dynamics of group decision making for many years. The leading figures in this research have been mostly law and politics professors, along with a number of economists, and their methods have included data analytics, game theory, organization theory and behavioral economics, to name