Last time, we reviewed the three-year floating reversal rate in civil cases from 1990 to 2017 of the Divisions of Chicago’s First District of the Appellate Court. This time, we’re turning our attention to the rest of the state. For Districts Two through Five, the highest long-term reversal rate was the Fifth District – 72.83%
Which Division of the First District Is Reversed Most Often in Civil Cases (1990-2017)?
This week, we’re looking at one of the most frequently seen analytics about appellate decision-making and courts of last resort: which Appellate Court has the highest (and lowest) reversal rate. First, a few words about method. We define criminal and quasi-criminal cases in our database as criminal, quasi-criminal cases like habeas corpus, juvenile and mental
How Was Dissent Distributed in Criminal Cases?
Yesterday, we took a closer look at last week’s analysis of the unanimity rate, asking how much of the docket was accounted for by one, two and three dissenter cases. Over the entire period 1990-2017, 12.86% of the criminal decisions had one dissenter, 10.65% had two – both slightly below the rate in civil cases
How Was Dissent Distributed in Civil Cases?
Last week, we discussed the evolution of the Court’s rate of unanimity in civil cases. But of course, that analysis omits important variables – how was the dissent distributed? It tells us something very different if, for example, the entire group of divided decisions were 6-1 or 4-3. So this week, we’re looking at that
How Has the Court’s Unanimity Rate in Criminal Cases Changed Over Time?
Yesterday, we began our review of how the Court’s unanimity rate has changed over time with a review of the data for the civil docket. Today, we’re looking at the criminal docket. For the entire twenty-eight years, the Court has decided 1,540 cases and been unanimous in 67.86% – less than a point higher than
How Has the Court’s Unanimity Rate in Civil Cases Changed Over Time?
This week, we’re turning our attention to a new issue, comparing the evolution of the Court’s unanimity rate in civil and criminal cases over time. Between 1990 and 2017, the Court decided 1,363 civil cases, 67.06% of them unanimously.
In Table 890, we report the yearly numbers from 1990 to 1996. In 1990, the Court’s
How Has the Court Decided Cases Involving Property Crimes Since 1990?
Yesterday, we took a close look at the Court’s arbitration cases since 1990. Today, we’re on the criminal side of the docket, looking at the Court’s cases involving property crimes. Less than a third of the Court’s property crime cases were won by the prosecution below – only 31.58%. Oddly, the Court reversed 83.33% of
How Has the Court Decided Arbitration Cases Since 1990?
Last week, we turned our attention to two new two areas of law in our ongoing review of the Court’s decision making – on the civil side, arbitration cases, and on the criminal side, cases involving property crimes. Today, we’re taking a more in-depth look at the Court’s arbitration decisions.
Since 1990, a lopsided proportion
How Many Arbitration Cases Does the Court Decide a Year?
This week, we’re turning our attention to two new areas of law in the Court’s civil and criminal dockets: arbitration law and cases involving property crimes. Since 1990, the Court has decided seventeen cases involving arbitration law.
The Court decided one arbitration case in 1991, two in 1992 and one in 1995.
The Court decided
How Has the Court Decided Criminal Cases Involving Sexual Offenses Since 1990?
Last week, we reviewed the year-by-year numbers for the Illinois Supreme Court’s history with two new areas of the law: civil cases involving employment law and criminal cases involving sexual offenses. Today, we’re taking a closer look at the sexual offense cases.
Since 1990, fifty-five percent of the criminal sexual offense cases which the Court