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%.
This week, we’re reviewing the reversal rates for the Appellate Court in criminal cases since 1990. First up, the six Divisions of Chicago’s First District of the Appellate Court.
Since 1990, Division One of the First has fared worst, with a reversal rate in criminal cases of 57.14%. Division Three was next at 56.52%. The
Today, we’re discussing the civil reversal rates from 1990 to 2020 for the Districts of the Appellate Court outside of Chicago – Two, Three, Four and Five.
Not surprisingly to long-time readers of this blog, the Fifth District leads with a reversal rate in civil cases of 72.43%. The other three districts are quite close
This week, we’re returning to perhaps the most often-written-about statistics in judicial analytics: reversal rates. First up, the Divisions of Chicago’s First District of the Appellate Court in civil cases.
The overall numbers for Divisions One through Six are reported in Table 1695. All six Divisions are relatively close. The highest reversal rate 1990-2020 was
Now we turn our attention to the criminal docket. First, we review the data for complete reversal – divided decisions from the Court of Appeal versus unanimous decisions. In six of the past thirty-one years, the reversal rate for unanimous Court of Appeal decisions has exceeded that for divided ones. The rest of the time,