This week, we’re looking at a new topic in our ongoing review of the Court’s work: which Districts of the Appellate Court contributed the Supreme Court’s civil docket since 1990.
Between 1990 and 1994, the civil docket was far from evenly distributed, either among the Districts of the Appellate Court, or among the Divisions of
Last week, we reviewed the year-by-year data for the Court’s tort law caseload. This week, we’re answering our usual second week questions: (1) did the Court decide more defense or plaintiffs’ wins; (2) did the Court reverse either side’s wins at a higher rate; and (3) how often did the Court reverse tort decisions, either
Yesterday, we took a detailed look at the Court’s civil procedure decisions. Today, we’re taking a look at the Court’s criminal procedure cases.
In 1990, the Court affirmed 6 prosecution wins in criminal procedure cases. The Court affirmed 3 times in 1991, twice in 1993 and 1994, 1 time in 1995, 2 in 1996, five
Last week, we tracked the Supreme Court’s year-by-year record with civil and criminal procedure cases. This week, we’re taking a deeper look to address several questions: (1) did the Court tend to take more defendants’ or plaintiffs’ wins from the Appellate Court? (2) did the Court reverse either defense or plaintiffs’ wins at a higher
This week, we’re continuing our review of the Court’s constitutional law docket by asking (1) how much of the Court’s docket consists of cases won below by one side or the other; (2) whether the Court has a significantly higher (or lower) reversal rate depending on who won below; and (3) whether the Court tends
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 further examination of the Court’s experience with cases with a dissent at the Appellate Court. We asked whether civil cases with a dissent were systematically more or less likely to be reversed than cases which were decided unanimously. Today, we’re asking the same question on the criminal side of the docket.
Last week, we reviewed the data on whether cases which were published below are more frequently reversed. This week, we’re reviewing a related issue: are cases with a dissent below more frequently reversed by the Supreme Court? If so, that might suggest that dissents at the Appellate Court aren’t just helpful in getting the Court’s
Yesterday, we tested whether publication at the Appellate Court has any impact on a civil case’s reversal rate at the Supreme Court. The answer is no – published Appellate Court decisions on the civil side are not consistently reversed at a higher or lower rate than unpublished decisions. Today, we test the same question on
Last week, we looked at the conventional wisdom which holds that the Supreme Court only reviews published decisions from the Appellate Court. We showed that in fact, Rule 23 orders (the Illinois term for unpublished decisions) are not unheard of on the Court’s civil docket – in a typical year, twenty to forty percent of