For the past few weeks, we’ve been studying the Court’s collective and individual voting records in tort cases. Chief Justice Burke participated in ninety civil tort cases since taking her seat on the Court. She has voted for defendants’ position (at least in part) in 57 cases and voted for plaintiffs 33 times. Between 2006
We continue our analysis of the individual Justices’ voting records in insurance law cases with Chief Justice Burke.
During her tenure, the Chief Justice has sat on 24 civil cases involving insurer parties. She has split her votes down the middle: 12 votes for the insurer, 12 votes against. Those totals hold even when we
Yesterday, we reviewed the data on Justice Burke’s question patterns in criminal cases. Today, we ask a related question: if Justice Burke asks the first question, can we infer that she is likely writing an opinion?
Writing the majority opinion has some impact on the likelihood that Justice Burke will ask the first question. In
Last week, we began our review of the individual Justices’ patterns in oral arguments, reviewing the data on Justice Anne M. Burke’s questioning in civil cases from 2008 to 2016. Today, we address Justice Burke’s patterns in criminal cases.
We report the data for criminal cases when Justice Burke is in the majority in Table
Yesterday, we analyzed the data from nine years’ worth of oral arguments in civil cases, looking at correlations between Justice Burke’s question patterns, her voting and whether she wrote an opinion in a given case. Today, we address whether Justice Burke is statistically more likely to be writing an opinion in cases where she asks
This week we’re turning our attention to multiple issues: (1) does each individual Justice ask more questions of the prevailing or losing party in civil cases; (2) is the Justice’s pattern different when he or she votes with the minority; (3) what difference does it make for each Justice’s questioning if the Justice is writing
For the past several weeks, we’ve been doing a quick review of oral arguments in cases decided by the Illinois Supreme Court in 2015, evaluating whether the Justices’ questioning patterns differ from their civil arguments. Today, we finish our aggregate statistics and make a start on our Justice-by-Justice comparisons.
In Table 121 below, we see
Yesterday, we began our Justice-by-Justice review of question patterns at the Illinois Supreme Court with Justice Anne M. Burke. Our goal is to explore what we can infer about likely voting and opinion writing from each Justice’s questioning of the two sides. Today, we look at whether Justice Burke’s vote and opinion writing impacts the
Today, we begin a new series of posts, looking for patterns in the questions from each member of the Illinois Supreme Court during oral arguments in civil cases. We begin with Justice Anne M. Burke.
In analyzing an oral argument, we’re interested in two facts about the individual Justices: how is the Justice voting, and