Yesterday, we began a comprehensive review of the data regarding reversal rates for the Appellate Courts at the Illinois Supreme Court with civil cases between 2000 and 2005. Today, we turn to reversal rates in criminal cases.
In Table 265, we report the statewide reversal rate in criminal cases. We saw yesterday that statewide reversal
Sooner or later, every discussion of Supreme Court statistics turns to the rates at which the appellate courts are reversed. It’s been a frequent political football nationally, with politicians praising or condemning one Circuit or another based on the percentage of their cases reversed by the Supreme Court. It’s a frequent subject of conventional wisdom
For the past two weeks, we’ve been considering the Illinois Supreme Court’s rate of unanimity and dissent in civil and criminal cases between 2000 and 2015. Today, we address a related historical issue. Until 2011, when the state of Illinois abolished the death penalty, appeals in death cases were heard in the first instance at
Last week, we began reviewing the data for the Illinois Supreme Court’s unanimity and dissent rates in civil and criminal cases between 2000 and 2015. We also considered how many of the non-unanimous civil decisions qualified as “lopsided” – meaning that they featured only one dissenter. Today, we consider the rate of lopsided decisions on
Yesterday, we addressed the Illinois Supreme Court’s rate of unanimous and near-unanimous opinions in civil cases. Today, we turn to the criminal docket.
In Table 257 below, we report the overall data for the criminal docket. For the years 2000 through 2003 – years in which the Court was split five Democrats to two Republicans
Last week, we addressed whether the lag time between oral argument and the Illinois Supreme Court’s decisions is an accurate predictor of dissent for the Court’s civil and criminal dockets. Today, we turn to a different question: the Supreme Court’s unanimity rate.
We report the Court’s rate of unanimous civil decisions in Table 255 below.
Yesterday, we continued our analysis of the Illinois Supreme Court’s time under submission from 2008 to the end of 2015, looking at whether unanimous decisions are generally under submission for substantially less time than non-unanimous ones. Today, we address the year-by-year data for the criminal docket. The numbers demonstrate that although, all things being equal,
Last week, we began our examination of the Illinois Supreme Court’s lag time on civil cases in unanimous and non-unanimous cases. This week, we turn to the Court’s criminal, quasi-criminal, juvenile and disciplinary cases.
Interestingly, criminal cases are under submission for less time, on average, for nearly every year since 2000 than the comparable numbers
Yesterday, we began our analysis of the average time under submission at the Illinois Supreme Court for civil cases. Today, we probe further the question of what can be predicted from time under submission by considering the year-by-year data.
In Table 237 below, we report the lag times for divided and unanimous civil decisions at
Today we turn to another phase of our analysis of the Illinois Supreme Court’s decision making, asking what we can predict from the time a case has been under submission between oral argument and decision.
In Table 235, we report the overall data for civil cases. The lag time at the Court has been consistently