Today, we’re continuing our series of posts on the Court’s experience since 1990 with civil constitutional law cases.
Constitutional law cases continued to drop sharply as a share of the civil docket between 2006 and 2013, as the Court decided only twenty-nine cases. The Court decided five cases in 2006, two in 2007, eight in
Earlier today, we began our review of the Court’s history with civil constitutional law cases, starting with the years 1990 through 1997. This time, we’re looking at the next eight years: 1998 to 2005.
Constitutional law cases were down during this period. After deciding sixty-five cases between 1990 and 1997, the Court decided only forty-nine
Last time, we completed our review of the Court and Justices’ voting records on employment law cases. This week, we’re taking a look at the Court’s history with civil constitutional law cases (we also track constitutional law cases on the criminal law docket, but those cases are not included in the data below).
Throughout the
This week, we’re continuing our review of the Court’s constitutional law docket by asking (1) how much of the Court’s docket consists of cases won below by one side or the other; (2) whether the Court has a significantly higher (or lower) reversal rate depending on who won below; and (3) whether the Court tends
Last week, we tracked the number of constitutional law cases on the civil side of the Court’s docket, year by year since 1990. This week, we’re looking deeper at the data. What kind of constitutional law cases has the Court tended to take, and has the Court tended to reverse more regularly, depending on who
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.