In the last two posts, we’ve been investigating where in the state the Illinois Supreme Court tends to draw its civil docket from. Now, we turn to the last five years of our study period.
During the most recent years – comprising the entirety of the Kilbride Court and the beginning of the Garman Court
In our last post, we began our discussion of where in the state the Illinois Supreme Court’s civil docket has come from over the past fifteen years, beginning with population figures for 2000 and 2010, and including also the data from 2000-2004.
For the second five years of the study period, the Court’s civil caseload
In our last several posts, we considered how frequently the Illinois Supreme Court agrees to review summary judgments.
Next we consider the geographical sources of the Court’s civil docket. The most obvious driver of caseload should be population – more residents equals more litigation, and therefore more candidates for possible Supreme Court review. Therefore, as