Last week, we began our study of the Court’s voting dynamics. We analyzed agreement rates between all combinations of the Justices in non-unanimous civil and criminal cases between 2000 and 2004. This week, we’ll turn our attention to the second five years of the period, 2005 to 2009. We’ll begin with the Court’s civil cases.
Yesterday, we began our review of the Court’s voting dynamics, analyzing the Justices’ agreement rates in non-unanimous civil cases between 2000 and 2004. Today, we turn to the Court’s agreement rates in non-unanimous criminal cases.
We showed yesterday that Chief Justice McMorrow voted most often with Justice Freeman in civil cases. That was true on
Last week, we completed our comparison of the Justices’ majority opinions in civil and criminal cases. This week, we begin our study of the Court’s voting dynamics. Which Justices agreed most (and least) often? Today, we track how often every combination of Justices voted together in non-unanimous civil cases between 2000 and 2004.
In Table
Yesterday, we began our examination of the Court’s majority opinions in the past six years by analyzing the opinions in civil cases. Today, we turn our attention to the Court’s majority opinions criminal cases between 2010 and 2015.
We begin by once again reviewing the number of opinions written by each Justice. In 2010, Chief
For the past few weeks, we’ve been tracking the Justices’ individual majority opinions, looking at whether any of the Justices tend to write longer (or shorter) majority opinions. Today, we’ve reached the majority opinions in the Court’s civil cases between 2010 and 2015.
We begin as usual by reviewing the number of majority opinions written
Last week, we began analyzing the Justices’ individual records, tracking whether any Justices tended to write longer or shorter majority opinions than other Justices do. Today, we address the Court’s criminal opinions between 2005 and 2009.
In Table 390, we review the distribution of majority opinions between 2005 and 2009 in the criminal docket. Chief
Last week, we turned our attention to the individual Justices’ records, analyzing whether any of the Justices tend to consistently write either longer or shorter majority opinions than other members of the Court do. Today, we turn our attention to the Court’s civil opinions between 2005 and 2009.
In Table 388, we review the data
Yesterday, we began our analysis of the individual Justices’ track records with respect to majority opinions, beginning with civil opinions between 2000 and 2004. Today, we compare that data to the Justices’ opinions in criminal cases during the same years.
Once again, we begin by reviewing the data we first reported a few weeks ago
Today, we begin a new area in our analysis of the individual Justices’ records. Do any of the Justices tend to write longer (or shorter) majority opinions, and how do the majority opinions in civil cases compare to the criminal majorities? We begin by considering the civil opinions between 2000 and 2004.
For context, we
Yesterday, we reviewed the frequency with which the Justices of the Illinois Supreme Court voted in the majority in divided civil cases between 2008 and 2015. Today, we turn our attention to the Court’s non-unanimous criminal cases for the same years.
We report the data in Table 383 below. In 2008, Justice Fitzgerald led the