Yesterday, we showed that unlike many of his colleagues, Justice Freeman does not tend to ask the party he’s voting against more questions at oral argument – he averages more questions to the appellants in every scenario. Today, we ask whether we can infer that Justice Freeman is writing an opinion in cases where he
Last week, we looked at the pattern of Justice Freeman’s questioning in oral arguments in civil cases, analyzing whether he tends to ask more questions of the party he will ultimately vote against, and what impact writing an opinion has on questioning. This week, we take a look at Justice Freeman’s patterns in criminal cases.
Yesterday, we began analyzing Justice Freeman’s question patterns in civil cases. Today, we analyze whether it is more likely that Justice Freeman will ask the first question, depending on his vote and whether he’s writing an opinion.
Overall, when Justice Freeman is in the majority of an affirmance, there’s a 12.5% chance that Justice Freeman
Last week, we analyzed Justice Garman’s question patterns in criminal cases. This week, we address Justice Freeman’s question pattern in civil cases.
We begin with cases in which Justice Freeman has voted with the majority. When Justice Freeman votes with the majority, he more heavily questions the appellant by a wide margin. Justice Freeman averages
Today we continue our Justice-by-Justice review of the questioning patterns for criminal, quasi-criminal and disciplinary cases decided during 2015, checking our conclusions against our work in the summer and fall with civil cases decided since 2008. Today, we review the data for Justice Freeman, Chief Justice Garman and Justice Thomas, working our way from left
Today we continue our Justice-by-Justice analysis of the question patterns during oral argument on the Illinois Supreme Court, looking further at the data on Justice Charles E. Freeman. Yesterday, we discovered that in contrast to Justices Burke and Kilbride, Justice Freeman doesn’t tend to question counsel more heavily in cases where he winds up writing
Last week, we continued our detailed look at the questioning patterns of the Justices of the Illinois Supreme Court with Justice Thomas L. Kilbride. Today, we turn to the question patterns of Justice Charles E. Freeman.
Justice Freeman’s question patterns differ from Justices Burke and Kilbride in several ways. In cases where Justice Freeman votes