Between 2000 and 2009, the Court decided 21 civil procedure cases from the First District – two from Division One, five from Division Two, four each from Divisions Three, Four and Five and two from Division Six. The Court decided seven cases from the Second District. Only four cases came from the Third District. The
Between 2000 and 2009, the Court decided 59 civil procedure cases. The reversal rate was up a bit from its level in the nineties – the Court reversed 57.63% of those decisions. Once again, yearly reversal rates were up and down – 60% in 2000, 33.33% the following year; 71.43% in 2002 and 2003, 25%
This time, we continue our review of the data for the years 1990 through 1999.
The Court decided a total of 41 civil procedure cases from Cook County’s First District: seven from Division One, five from Division Two, ten from Division Three, nine from Division Four, six from Division Five and four from Division Six.
This time, we’re beginning a new multi-part series of posts similar to our earlier work on the Court’s tort docket. In this and five posts to come, we’ll do a deep dive review on the Court’s civil procedure cases since 1990.
Between 1990 and 1999, the Court decided 117 civil procedure cases and reversed in
Reprinted with permission from the October 2017 issue of ALI CLE’s The Practical Lawyer.
On Lex Machina’s platform, counsel can use the “motion kickstarter” to survey recent motions before the assigned trial judge. The “motion chain” links together the briefing and the eventual order for each motion, so counsel can identify the arguments which
Reprinted with permission from the my article in the October 2017 issue of ALI CLE’s The Practical Lawyer.
“In God we trust. All others must bring data.”
— Professor William Edwards Deming
All of us who often speak and write about the ongoing revolution in data analytics for litigation have heard it from at
Between 2010 and 2020, the Supreme Court decided 36 tort cases from Chicago’s First District: three from Division One, six from Division Two, eight from Division three, nine from Division Four, six from Division Five and four from Division Six. Eleven cases arose from the Second District. The Court decided five tort cases each from
In this post and the next, we’ll be reviewing the data for tort cases for the decade of 2010 through 2020. The overall reversal rate in tort cases was 55.56% in 2010 and 50% in 2011. It rose to 70% in 2012, 75% in 2013 and 60% in 2014, then went to 85.71% in 2015.
Last time, we began our review of the general data for reversal rates in tort cases between 2000 and 2009. This time, we’re drilling down further to look at where the cases came from and whether the Court’s reversal rate differed significantly from one District to another of the Appellate Court.
Not surprisingly, the bulk
This time, we’re reviewing the data on the Court’s tort docket for the years 2000 through 2009. The Court reversed 70% of the tort decisions it reviewed in 2000. The reversal rate then dipped for several years: 62.5% in 2001, 50% (2002), 55.6% (2003), 58.33% (2004), 50% (2005), 41.67% (2006), 42.86% (2007) and 57.14% in