Last week, we began our review of eight years’ worth of oral arguments in civil and criminal matters at the Illinois Supreme Court. Today, we look at a simple question: does the Court tend to ask appellants or appellees more questions?
The year by year data, divided by side, is reported in Table 416 below.
Yesterday, we reviewed our data for oral arguments in civil cases from 2008 through 2015. Today, we turn our attention to the Court’s criminal, quasi-criminal, juvenile and disciplinary docket.
In Table 413, we report the total questions asked by each Justice in criminal cases. Since 2008, the Court has asked 8,764 questions in criminal matters.
Today, we turn our attention back to the Court’s oral arguments. Over the next several weeks, we’ll be analyzing how the Court’s questioning patterns tend to differ in civil and criminal cases, based upon our database of every oral argument from 2008 through 2015.
First, the most basic question – total questions, Justice by Justice.
Yesterday, we continued our analysis of the Illinois Supreme Court’s time under submission from 2008 to the end of 2015, looking at whether unanimous decisions are generally under submission for substantially less time than non-unanimous ones. Today, we address the year-by-year data for the criminal docket. The numbers demonstrate that although, all things being equal,
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
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
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
For the past few weeks, we’ve been concluding our quick trip through the oral arguments in criminal cases decided at the Illinois Supreme Court during 2015 by looking at the Justices’ question patterns, one-by-one, to determine what we can infer about the result and opinion writing. Today, we conclude our analysis with a look at
Today we continue our Justice-by-Justice review of the questioning patterns for criminal, quasi-criminal and disciplinary cases decided during 2015, checking our conclusions against our work in the summer and fall with civil cases decided since 2008. Today, we review the data for Justice Freeman, Chief Justice Garman and Justice Thomas, working our way from left
For the past several weeks, we’ve been doing a quick review of oral arguments in cases decided by the Illinois Supreme Court in 2015, evaluating whether the Justices’ questioning patterns differ from their civil arguments. Today, we finish our aggregate statistics and make a start on our Justice-by-Justice comparisons.
In Table 121 below, we see