Average votes to affirm for criminal cases from the Fifth District in 1990 was 4.22. The average was 5.5 in 1991, 0.6 in 1992, 2 in 1993, 3.2 in 1994, 7 in 1995, 4.33 in 1996, 4.67 in 1997, 2.33 in 1998 and 4 in 1999.
Average votes to affirm was 3.75 in 2000, 7
This time, we’re reviewing the average votes to affirm at the Supreme Court for civil cases from the Fifth District. The Fifth’s average votes to affirm remained under four throughout the nineties: 2.36 (1990), 1.89 (1991), 1.55 (1992), 3.29 (1993), 2.64 (1994), 1.38 (1995), 1.75 (1996), 2.14 (1997), 2.63 (1998) and 1.17 (1999).
Average votes
Last time, we reviewed the 3-year floating average reversal rates in criminal cases for the Divisions of the First District. In this post, we’re looking at the data for the rest of the state: the Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Districts of the Appellate Court, and direct appeals from trial court judgments.
Between 1992 and
In Table 1342 below, we report the three-year floating average reversal rates for the Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Appellate Districts for the years 1992 to 1999. The Second District fared best during these years. The Third and Fourth were relatively equal, and the Fifth District fared worst.
The Second District had only one spike,
Last time, we reviewed the data on the origin counties for the Supreme Court’s criminal cases from the Fifth Appellate District from 1990 to 2004. Today, we’re looking at the data for the years 2005 to 2019.
The Court’s flow of criminal cases from the Fifth District has slowed somewhat in recent years. In 2005,
Last week, we reviewed the data on which trial courts accounted for the Supreme Court’s civil cases from the Fifth District from 1990 to 2019. This week, we’re reviewing the Court’s Fifth District criminal cases.
In 1990, the Court decided three cases from St. Clair, two from Madison county and one each from Jackson, Pope,
In 2005, the Court decided two civil cases from Franklin county, two from Madison and one from St. Clair and Williamson. In 2006, the Court decided three cases from St. Clair and one each from Jackson, Jefferson, Madison and Perry counties. In 2007, the Court decided one case from Madison county and one from Montgomery.
This week and next, we’re tracking the county Circuit Courts which accounted for the Supreme Court’s Fifth District civil and criminal cases between 1990 and 2019. We begin with the civil docket.
The Fifth District is comprised of thirty-six counties in the southernmost part of Illinois, with a total population according to the 2010 census
Yesterday, we reviewed the origin of the Court’s criminal docket for the years 2005 through 2010. Today, we finish the journey – the years 2011 through 2017.
One hundred and one of the 244 criminal, quasi-criminal and disciplinary cases the Court has heard 2011-2017 came from Chicago’s First District – 41.39%. The Court decided eight
Last week, we began looking at which Districts and Divisions of the Appellate Court produced the Supreme Court’s criminal, quasi-criminal and attorney disciplinary docket for the years 1990 through 2003. This week, we’re looking at the rest of our study period. First up, 2004 through 2010.
For the years 2004 through 2010, 131 of the