This time, we’re looking at the second part of our analysis for the years 2000 through 2009 – excluding unanimous affirmances, how many votes to affirm the Appellate Court did each District and Division average?
In 2000, decisions from the Second District fared best, averaging 2.5 votes to affirm. The Fourth District and the Second
Today we’re continuing our two-part analysis of each District of the Appellate Court’s performance at the Supreme Court since 1990. Question 1, which we address below, is how likely is a civil decision from each part of the Appellate Court to be affirmed unanimously? Question 2, which we’ll look at for the next post, is
Last time, we reviewed the percentage of the time the Supreme Court affirmed civil decisions from each District unanimously. This time we’re looking at average votes to affirm in non-unanimous decisions.
In 1990, Division Four of the First District averaged three votes to affirm. In 1991, Division Five averaged three votes. In 1992, Division Four
This time, we’re beginning a multi-week inquiry: (1) what percentage of the time does the Supreme Court affirm each District and Division of the Appellate Court unanimously; and (2) among non-unanimous decisions, what’s the average votes to affirm for each court?
In Table 1729, we report the percentage of unanimous affirmances for each District and
This time, we’re concluding our three-week trip through the data for originating jurisdictions, looking at the Court’s criminal cases between 2010 and 2020.
For these years, Cook County accounted for 156 criminal cases. Will County was next, followed by Peoria, Du Page, Kane and Lake counties.
Several small counties made our second Table, producing between
This week, we’re wrapping up our three-week series on the geographical origins of the Court’s docket by reviewing the data for the years 2010 through 2020.
Between 2010 and 2020, the Court decided 150 civil cases which began in Cook County (once again, Cook is removed from the Table for readability). There was a three-way
For the past several posts, we’ve been reviewing the jurisdictions where the Illinois Supreme Court’s civil and criminal cases originated. This time, we’re looking at the criminal cases for the years 2000 through 2009.
Once again, we omit Cook County from the Table to make it easier to read. Cook County produced 225 criminal cases
This week, we’re reporting the data for the Supreme Court’s civil and criminal cases during the years 2000 through 2009.
Once again, Cook County led by a wide margin, accounting for 172 civil cases. Du Page and Lake counties – the second and third largest counties by population – were next, followed by the Industrial
In this post, we report the originating jurisdictions for the Court’s criminal cases during the years 1990 through 1999. Once again, we omit Cook County from the chart to make it more readable; Cook County produced 268 criminal cases during the nineties. Lake County, the third biggest county in terms of population, is second in
This week, we’re looking at where the Supreme Court’s cases originate. This is important for the same reason that tracking which Districts and Divisions of the Appellate Court the Court is taking its cases from. Just as it’s possible for the Court to conclude that a particular part of the Appellate Court is out of