Last week, we tracked the number of constitutional law cases on the civil side of the Court’s docket, year by year since 1990. This week, we’re looking deeper at the data. What kind of constitutional law cases has the Court tended to take, and has the Court tended to reverse more regularly, depending on who
Yesterday, we began our detailed look at the most common area of law on the Court’s civil and criminal dockets (and the area of law most frequently identified with courts of law resort) – constitutional law. Today, we’re beginning our review of the Court’s constitutional law cases on the criminal docket side.
In 1990, the
This week, we’re beginning an intensive look at the Court’s cases, divided by subject matter. Many people – especially non-lawyers – think of courts of last resort primarily in terms of constitutional law decisions. So let’s start there – the Illinois Supreme Court’s past twenty-seven years with constitutional law in both civil and criminal law.
For the past two weeks, we’ve been reviewing the government’s winning percentage as the appellant in civil cases at the Illinois Supreme Court. Today, we finish our review with the years 2011 through 2016.
In 2011, the government won its only domestic relations case as an appellant. Governmental entities won two of three cases in
Last week, we began reviewing the government’s winning percentage in civil appeals. We began by reviewing the data for the years 1990-2003. This week, we address the more recent years, beginning with the period 2004-2010.
For the beginning of this period, the government fared somewhat worse in both constitutional law and government and administrative law
Yesterday, we began looking at governmental entities’ won-loss record in civil cases by area of law. Interestingly, governmental entities had significantly more trouble in government and administrative law cases than they did in the previous seven years. In 1997, governmental entities win two thirds of their tort cases and two thirds of their constitutional law
For the past few weeks, we’ve been studying appeals brought to the Illinois Supreme Court by governmental entities – specifically, which areas do governmental entities tend to most often appeal in civil cases? This week, we begin our look at the natural follow-up question: how often do governmental entities win those appeals?
We begin with
Yesterday, we continued tracking the areas of law, year by year, in which governmental entities appealed in civil cases. Today, we’re completing our review with the years 2011 through 2016.
Once again, the leading areas for governmental entities appeals were government and administrative law with 21 and constitutional law with 10. The court decided five
Last week, we began reviewing the subject matter areas in which governmental entities appealed to the Illinois Supreme Court between 1990 and 2003. This week, we’ll turn our attention to the years 2004 through 2016.
For the years 2004 through 2010, governmental and administrative law was the most common source of appeals by government entities
Yesterday, we began looking at a new question in our ongoing studies – what areas of law does the State most often appeal in civil cases? We began in our last post with the years 1990 through 1996. Today, we turn to the years 1997 through 2003.
For the first part of our study period,