Between 2010 and 2020, the Supreme Court decided 36 tort cases from Chicago’s First District: three from Division One, six from Division Two, eight from Division three, nine from Division Four, six from Division Five and four from Division Six. Eleven cases arose from the Second District. The Court decided five tort cases each from
In this post and the next, we’ll be reviewing the data for tort cases for the decade of 2010 through 2020. The overall reversal rate in tort cases was 55.56% in 2010 and 50% in 2011. It rose to 70% in 2012, 75% in 2013 and 60% in 2014, then went to 85.71% in 2015.
This time, we’re reviewing the Districts which produced the Supreme Court’s tort caseload, and the Court’s reversal rate, District by District.
The Supreme Court decided 67 tort cases from the First District between 1990 and 1999. The Court decided 26 cases from the Second District, 9 from the Third, 21 from the Fourth District and
For the next few weeks, we’ll be taking a deep dive on the Supreme Court’s tort cases. To begin, we’ll consider whether there is any relationship between the party which won at the Appellate Court and the result at the Supreme Court for the years 1990 through 1999.
The reversal rate for tort cases at
This time, we’re reviewing the Court’s docket data on the criminal (quasi-criminal, juvenile justice and mental health) side of the docket, calculating the percentage of cases year-by-year that arose from final judgments. Although it’s a minimal issue for this period since the death penalty was abolished in Illinois in 2011, we separate out the death
Today, we’re winding up our three-week trip through the data, asking whether the Supreme Court prefers to review final judgments. First up – civil cases for the years 2010 to 2020.
As shown in Table 1789, the share of the Court’s civil docket accounted for by final judgments has dipped between ten and twenty percentage
This time, we’re reviewing the data on final judgments in criminal cases for the years 2000 through 2009. First, we calculate the percentage of non-death criminal cases that arose from final judgments of conviction. Then, we add the share of the overall docket accounted for by death penalty appeals before the state of Illinois finally
Last week, we began our review of a new question: is the conventional wisdom which posits that the Supreme Court only reviews final judgments (making a petition for review under any other circumstances a waste of time and money) really true? This week, we’re reviewing the data for the years 2000 through 2009.
As shown
This time, we’re reviewing the share of appeals accounted for by final judgments in the 1990s. As a reminder, we’re defining “criminal” broadly to include quasi-criminal cases such as habeas corpus, as well as juvenile justice cases. Until 2011 when Illinois abolished the death penalty, we also include direct appeals to the Supreme Court from
We’ve all heard it any number of times: the appellate courts only review final judgments. Even if you can figure out a theory to take a non-final judgment up, the appellate courts won’t decide it on the grounds that it isn’t necessary – let it percolate out, and maybe the case will settle, or the