Last week, we turned our attention to tracking how often each Justice voted with the majority in cases in which the Court reached a divided decision. In Part 1 of our series, we addressed the years 2000 through 2007. Today, we turn our attention to the Court’s civil docket between 2008 and 2015.
In Table
Yesterday, we turned our attention to determining which Justices most often voted with the majority in non-unanimous civil decisions between 2000 and 2007. Today, we address the same question for non-unanimous criminal cases.
The Court decided an unusually high number of non-unanimous criminal cases in 2000, so the Table shows spikes that year across the
Last week, we wrapped up our consideration of which Justices of the Illinois Supreme Court most often spoke for the Court in the majority opinion. Today, we approach the issue of the individual Justices’ influence in another way: which Justices most often voted with the majority in non-unanimous cases?
The data for civil cases between
For the past two weeks, we’ve been tracking the history, year-by-year, of which Justices most frequently author the Court’s majority opinion in civil and criminal cases, both when the Court is divided and when the Court is unanimous. Today, we turn our attention to the Court’s criminal docket for the years 2010 through 2015.
For
For the past two weeks, we’ve been assessing the changing patterns, year by year, in which Justices most frequently speak for the Court in majority opinions on both the civil and criminal sides of the docket. Today, we address the civil docket between 2010 and 2015.
In Table 372 below, we report the total majority
Yesterday, we discussed the distribution of majority opinions in civil cases at the Illinois Supreme Court between 2005 and 2009. Today, we turn to the distribution of majorities in criminal cases during the same years.
For 2005, non-unanimous majorities in criminal cases were evenly spread among the Justices, with Chief Justice McMorrow and Justices Garman,
Last week, we began our review of the individual Justices’ work on the Illinois Supreme Court. We started with a look at how authorship of majority opinions was distributed year by year between 2000 and 2004. Today, we turn to majority opinions in civil cases between 2005 and 2009.
In Table 364 below, we report
Yesterday, we began our analysis of the work of the individual Justices at the Illinois Supreme Court by analyzing the distribution of majority opinions in civil cases between 2000 and 2004. Today, we turn our attention to the Court’s criminal docket during those same years.
Between 2000 and 2002, the non-unanimous majority opinions in criminal
Today, we begin a new phase of our analysis of the Illinois Supreme Court’s recent history, as we turn our attention to the work of the individual Justices. Over the next two months, we’ll be assessing how influential individual Justices appear to be in swaying the Court to their point of view. First up: have
Yesterday, we began our examination of trends in the Illinois Supreme Court’s civil and criminal dissents. We discovered that dissents were at an extremely high level on the criminal side, and somewhat elevated on the civil side, but have settled down in the years since. The average length of the civil and criminal dissents started