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
Today, we’re reviewing the contents of our database, which includes every case decided by the Illinois Supreme Court since January 17, 1990. For every case, we’ve captured the following data points:
Official Reporter Citation
Docket Number
Case Name
Petitioner
Petitioner Governmental Entity (Y/N)
Respondent Governmental Entity (Y/N)
Source of Appellate Jurisdiction
Originating
This time, we’re taking a closer look at what might be driving the reversal rate for criminal cases from the Third District.
First, let’s take a look at the subject breakdown of the criminal cases which have reached the Supreme Court. A large share of the cases was in two areas: criminal procedure (57 cases)
The last couple of weeks, we’ve looked at reversal rates for the Appellate Court in cases at the Supreme Court. But the difficulty which few people talk about is that reversal rates are nearly always a composite statistic – either “all cases,” or at most all civil cases or all criminal. But mathematically, a high
Last time, we reviewed the reversal rates at the Supreme Court in criminal cases for the Divisions of Chicago’s First District of the Appellate Court. This time, we’re looking at the reversal rates across the rest of the state.
The Third District fared worst from 1990 to 2020, with a collective reversal rate of 64.18%.