For the past few weeks, we’ve been refining simple reversal rates – the most often-used measure of how an intermediate appellate court has fared before the Supreme Court – by tracking the average votes to affirm each District and Division of the Appellate Court. This week, we’re looking at the criminal docket between 2005 and
Yesterday, we continued our analysis, refining simple reversal rates as a measure of how the Districts and Divisions of the Appellate Court fared before the Supreme Court by calculating each court’s average votes to affirm in civil cases between 2005 and 2009. Today, we ask which Districts had the highest and lowest percentage of their
Last week, we further refined our measure of how the decisions of the various Districts and Divisions of the Appellate Court have fared before the Supreme Court by calculating the average votes to affirm in civil cases between 2000 and 2004. Today, we begin our look at the second five years of our study period
Yesterday, we began addressing the average votes to affirm, District by District and Division by Division, of the Appellate Court in criminal cases before the Illinois Supreme Court between 2000 and 2004. Today, we turn to a related question: which Districts of the Appellate Court had the highest percentage of their criminal cases result in
Last week, we began further refining reversal rates as a measure of how the Districts and Divisions of the Appellate Court have fared before the Illinois Supreme Court by considering the average votes to affirm the Appellate Court’s decisions in the civil and criminal dockets. Today, we turn to the Supreme Court’s criminal docket between
Yesterday, we began refining our analysis of the how each District of the Appellate Court has fared before the Supreme Court by calculating average votes to affirm the Appellate Court’s decision, divided by non-unanimous and unanimous decisions at the Supreme Court. Today, we add another wrinkle: what fraction of each District’s civil decisions had votes
Over the past several weeks, we’ve considered the District-by-District reversal rates at the Illinois Supreme Court in the civil and criminal dockets. We refined that measure by factoring in the PLAs which are denied review and considered a “true” reversal rate – the portion of cases which are brought to the Court in PLAs which
Yesterday, we began the final segment of our analysis of the Court’s reversal rates by area of law and prevailing party below with a look at the criminal docket between 2010 and 2015. Today, we complete our analysis by addressing the Court’s reversal rates, divided by area of law and whether the defendant or the
This week, we wrap up our analysis of reversal rates by area of law and the party prevailing below with a look at the criminal docket between 2010 and 2015.
In Table 319 below, we report the percentage share of the criminal docket made up by each of the areas of law on which the
For the past few weeks, we’ve been taking a close look at the reversal rates before the Illinois Supreme Court, dividing the data by areas of law and whether the defendant or plaintiff prevailed in the lower court. Today, we conclude our review of the civil docket by asking how reversal rates have differed, area