Last week, we began taking a closer look at reversal rates before the Illinois Supreme Court, dividing the data by area of the law. This week, we turn to the criminal docket.
In Table 307 below, we report the percentage of the Court’s criminal, quasi-criminal, juvenile and disciplinary docket accounted for by various areas of
Yesterday, we showed that between 2000 and 2004, the Illinois Supreme Court reviewed more liberal Appellate Court decisions than conservative ones in most areas of the civil law. Today, we address the question left unanswered by that analysis: how does the Court’s reversal rate vary among areas of the law, depending on whether the Appellate
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been analyzing the Illinois Supreme Court’s civil and criminal dockets, looking at the performance of individual Districts of the Appellate Court. Now, we’ll disaggregate the data divided into areas of the law and ask two questions: (1) Does the Court tend to take more liberal or conservative Appellate Court
Yesterday, we reviewed “true” reversal rates for each District of the Appellate Court in civil cases before the Illinois Supreme Court since 2007 – which we defined as the cases reversed by the Supreme Court divided by the total number of cases disposed of by the Court, both on the merits and in PLAs. Today,
In the past several weeks, we’ve been looking at the Illinois Supreme Court’s reversal rates of the Districts of the Appellate Court, and at how the Districts have fared in the past nine years with the Court’s handling of petitions for leave to appeal.
Today, we combine all that work into a new measure –
Today, we conclude the first stage in our review of how the Districts and Divisions of the Appellate Court have fared at the Illinois Supreme Court with a look at the Appellate Court’s reversal rate in criminal cases between 2011 and 2015.
In Table 277 below, we report the overall statewide reversal rate for criminal
Last week, we addressed the reversal rates for civil and criminal cases at the Illinois Supreme Court between 2006 and 2010. Today, we turn to the final five years of our study period, 2011-2015.
Statewide reversal rates in civil cases were in the same range between 2011 and 2015 that they were during the previous
Early last year, we founded the Illinois Supreme Court Review to bring rigorous, law-review style empirical research founded on data analytic techniques to the study of appellate decision making. Today, we expand our focus with the California Supreme Court Review, a new blog devoted to sharing insights culled from tens of thousands of pages
Yesterday, we reviewed the rate at which the Illinois Supreme Court reversed the Districts and Divisions of the Appellate Court in civil cases between 2006 and 2010. Today, we turn to the criminal docket.
The Court’s overall reversal rate in criminal cases increased somewhat in our study period. Between 2000 and 2005, the reversal rate
Last week, we began our examination of the Illinois Supreme Court’s reversal rate for the various Districts and Divisions of the Appellate Court, contrasting the reversal rate in civil cases with the criminal docket. Today, we take the second step in that analysis, addressing the years 2006-2010.
In Table 268 below, we see the overall