Yesterday, we reviewed the areas of law involved in the criminal cases from Cook county – the only county in the First Appellate District – from 1990 to 2004. Today, we’re reviewing the numbers for the years 2005 to 2019.
The Court decided seven criminal procedure cases from Cook county in 2005, three cases each
Last week, we reviewed the areas of law involved in the Supreme Court’s Cook county civil cases. Today and tomorrow, we’re reviewing the criminal data.
In 1990, the Court decided a dozen death penalty cases from Cook county, six constitutional and six criminal procedure cases, one habeas corpus case and one involving property crimes (e.g.,
Last time, we reviewed the data on which areas of law were involved in the civil cases originating in Cook County which the Supreme Court decided from 1990 to 2004. This time, we’re looking at the years 2005 to 2019.
In 2005, the Supreme Court decided five constitutional law and five government/administrative law cases which
Last week, we reviewed the data on which counties accounted for the Supreme Court’s death penalty cases between 1990 and the final case before abolition in 2010. This week, we’re looking at the Cook county docket – what areas of law did the Cook county cases fall in?
In 1990, the Court decided ten tort
Yesterday, we continued our review of the geographic origins of the Illinois Supreme Court’s docket with a look at the Court’s civil and criminal caseload in the years 2010-2012. Today, we conclude our analysis with a look at the past three years, 2013-2015.
The Court’s civil docket from Cook County dropped from 19 cases in
Last week, we compared the geographical sources of the Illinois Supreme Court’s civil and criminal dockets during the years 2005-2009. Today, we begin our examination of the following six years of our period of study, 2010-2016.
Two-thirds of the civil docket in 2010 arose from Cook County – 22 cases in all. Kane and Sangamon
Yesterday, we reviewed the originating counties for the Illinois Supreme Court’s civil and criminal dockets for the years 2005-2007. Today, we turn to the years 2008 and 2009.
The data for the civil docket in 2008 is reported below in Table 174. Cook County’s share of the civil docket fell in 2008 to 38.1% of
Last week, we began reviewing where the Illinois Supreme Court’s civil and criminal dockets originated from during the first five years of our study period (2000-2004). Today and tomorrow, we review the second five years of the period.
The data for the civil docket in 2005 is reported in Table 168 below. Cook County’s share
Yesterday, we reviewed the geographic sources of the Illinois Supreme Court’s civil docket in the first five years of our study period from 2000 to 2004. Today, we compare the originating counties for the criminal docket during the same years. We conclude that in many years early in the twenty-first century, Cook County did not
Last week, we completed our comparative look at the sources of appellate jurisdiction in the Illinois Supreme Court’s civil and criminal dockets. We demonstrated that although the Court’s civil docket is heavily inclined towards final judgments, review of interlocutory orders is by no means uncommon. Interlocutory orders are even more numerous on the criminal side