Last week, we looked at what can be inferred from the patterns of Chief Justice Karmeier’s questions in civil cases between 2008 and 2016. This week, we look at the Chief Justice’s questioning in criminal cases.
In Table 497, we report the data for the Chief’s patterns when voting in the majority. Like most appellate
Yesterday, we began our analysis of the Chief Justice’s question patterns in civil cases from 2008 through 2016. Today, we address the Chief Justice’s patterns in criminal cases.
When voting with the majority in an affirmance, the Chief Justice begins the questioning of appellants in 13.68% of cases. There’s a 12.63% chance he’ll ask the
For the past two weeks, we’ve been reviewing Justice Thomas’ question patterns in oral arguments since 2008, and whether it’s possible to infer his likely vote and whether he’s writing an opinion. This week, we turn to Chief Justice Karmeier’s patterns in civil cases.
Chief Justice Karmeier has voted with the majority in 95 cases
For the past few weeks, we’ve been concluding our quick trip through the oral arguments in criminal cases decided at the Illinois Supreme Court during 2015 by looking at the Justices’ question patterns, one-by-one, to determine what we can infer about the result and opinion writing. Today, we conclude our analysis with a look at
Last week, we resumed our Justice-by-Justice look at the patterns of questions in oral argument, searching for evidence as to whether questioning signals a Justice’s likely vote and whether or not he or she is writing an opinion. Today, we conclude our consideration of Justice Lloyd A. Karmeier, looking at whether he is more likely
Today we return to our Justice-by-Justice review of the voting patterns of the Justices of the Illinois Supreme Court. We’ve been analyzing whether the Justices’ question patterns allow us to tentatively infer the Justices’ likely votes, and which Justices might be writing opinions.
Table 96 contains the data for cases in which Justice Karmeier votes