Yesterday, we reviewed the Court’s record with civil cases involving government entities and administrative law. Today, we’re looking at the criminal side of the docket – specifically, cases involving sentencing law.
The Court decided five sentencing law cases in 1990, one in 1991, eleven in 1992, one in 1993, three in 1994, six in 1995
For the past two weeks, we’ve been studying the Court’s death penalty cases. This week, we’re turning our attention to a new topic – (1) government and administrative law; and (2) sentencing law in the criminal docket. First up is civil cases involving government parties and administrative law issues. Since 1990, the Supreme Court has
Yesterday, we took an in-depth look at the Court’s tort law caseload. We showed that the Court has both accepted for review a larger share of plaintiffs’ wins from the Appellate Court than defense wins, and has reversed those plaintiffs’ wins more often. Today, we’re taking another look at the Court’s death penalty cases.
Overall,
Yesterday, we reviewed the Court’s year by year caseload of tort cases. Today, we’re looking at the Court’s death penalty cases.
The Court decided fifteen death penalty cases in 1990, thirteen cases in 1991, twenty-three cases in 1992, thirteen cases in 1993, seventeen cases in 1994, eighteen cases in 1995 and twenty cases in 1996.
For the past two weeks, we’ve taken a close look at the Court’s experience with civil and criminal procedure cases (both here and at our sister blog, the California Supreme Court Review.) This week, we’re reviewing the Court’s tort cases and death penalty decisions.
For the entire period from 1990 to 2017, the
Yesterday, we began our analysis of the Court’s procedural cases with a review of the year-by-year data on the Court’s civil procedure cases. Today, we’re looking at the Court’s criminal procedure cases. For the entire period 1990-2017, the Court has decided a total of 307 cases whose primary issue involved criminal procedure.
The Court decided
For the past two weeks, we’ve been taking a detailed look at the Court’s constitutional law decisions, both on the civil and criminal sides of the docket. This week and next, we’ll be looking at the Court’s procedure cases – decisions that turn on civil and criminal procedure issues. So first – how many civil
Yesterday, we began our detailed look at the most common area of law on the Court’s civil and criminal dockets (and the area of law most frequently identified with courts of law resort) – constitutional law. Today, we’re beginning our review of the Court’s constitutional law cases on the criminal docket side.
In 1990, the
This week, we’re beginning an intensive look at the Court’s cases, divided by subject matter. Many people – especially non-lawyers – think of courts of last resort primarily in terms of constitutional law decisions. So let’s start there – the Illinois Supreme Court’s past twenty-seven years with constitutional law in both civil and criminal law.
Last time, we looked at whether the Court’s lag time – from the allowance of a petition for leave to appeal to oral argument, and from oral argument to decision – gives litigants a hint of what the Court’s decision is likely to be. We showed that although there’s no consistent relationship between lag time