We’re reviewing the data on declining dockets at the Appellate Court for the years 2011 through 2021 – today, the criminal docket.
Once again – just as with the civil docket – the First District saw the biggest drop from 2011 to 2021, with new criminal filings down 57.8%. The Second District was next, dropping
This week, we complete our review of the docket data from the Appellate Court, covering the years 2011 through 2021.
Below is the data for new civil filings at the Appellate Court. Filings in the First District were comparatively stable from 2011 through 2015, declining by only 25 new filings overall (from 2134 to 2109).
This time, we’re reviewing the decline in Appellate Court criminal dockets between 2001 and 2010.
The sharpest decline was in the First District. There were 2,176 new criminal notices of appeal filed in 2000. Although that number rose to 2,334 in 2001, it nosedived to 1,772 in 2002 and stayed around that level for the
Last time we reviewed the data for civil dockets in the Districts of the Appellate Court for the years 1997 through 2000. Today, we’re looking at the data for the years 2001 through 2010.
In 2000, the First District saw 2,109 new proceedings. That number dipped towards the middle of the decade, bottoming out at
Last time, we showed that although civil dockets were down a bit between 1997 and 2000 in the First and Fifth Districts, declines elsewhere in the state were negligible. This time, we look at the criminal dockets for the same period.
The pattern was relatively similar on the criminal docket. Across the four years, new
Today we’re beginning a series of posts examining the declining dockets at the Appellate Court and assessing the impact on the Supreme Court’s work.
Below, we report the District-by-District new filings numbers for civil cases, 1997-2000 (all data comes from the Illinois Courts Annual Report Statistical Summaries – we begin with 1997 because that’s as
This time, we’re wrapping up this multi-part post, reviewing the trial court data for the civil cases from the Fifth District between 2020 and 2022.
The Court has decided eleven cases since the beginning of 2020. In 2020, there were two cases from Madison County and one each from Williamson, Effingham, Randolph and Franklin. In
This time, we’re reviewing the civil cases from the Fourth District reviewed by the Supreme Court in the first third of this decade, from 2020 to 2022-to-date.
Spoiler alert: there weren’t many. The Court reviewed one civil case from Adams County in 2020. In 2021, the Court decided one case from McLean and one from
This time, we’re reviewing the county-level data on the Third District civil cases reviewed by the Supreme Court between 2020 and 2022 (so far).
The Court decided no Third District civil cases in 2020. In 2021, there were three cases from Will County and one each originating in Grundy, Putnam and Kankakee counties. So far
This time, we’re wrapping up our four-part post by reviewing the county-by-county data for the first third of the current decade: 2020-2022.
In the past three years, the Supreme Court has reviewed ten civil cases from the Second District. In 2021, there were four cases from Lake County. In 2020, there were one each from