This week, as we continue to review the data from the Court’s criminal decisions, we’re reviewing the yearly average votes to affirm criminal decisions from Division Three of the First District.
In 1990 and 1991, average votes to affirm was zero. It was 2.2 in 1992, 6 in 1993, 1.33 in 1994 and 2.5 in
This week, we’re reviewing average votes to affirm in civil cases for Division Three of the First District of the Appellate Court.
Division Three was in majority territory only one year in the 1990s: 4.2 votes, 1997. Every other year, the average has been below 4: 3 (1990 & 1991), 1.83 (1992), 3.5 (1993), 1.5