Yesterday, we began our analysis of Justice Theis’ question patterns in civil cases. Today, we continue our work on Justice Theis’ civil arguments since taking office in 2010.
When voting in the majority of an affirmance, there’s a 32.88% chance that Justice Theis will ask the first question of appellants, but only a 15.07% chance
For the past two weeks, we’ve been reviewing the patterns in Chief Justice Fitzgerald’s questioning in civil and criminal cases between 2008 and his retirement in 2010. This week, we review the question patterns of his successor, Justice Mary Jane Theis.
Justice Theis voted with the majority in 73 civil affirmances and 105 civil reversals.
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 continued our Justice-by-Justice review of the question patterns on the Illinois Supreme Court by beginning our look at the numbers for Justice Mary Jane Theis. We saw that in three of the four scenarios we studied, Justice Theis tends to average at least somewhat more questions to the side she ultimately votes
Today, we continue our Justice-by-Justice review of the question patterns of the Justices of the Illinois Supreme Court. We’re looking at whether we can infer the Justices’ likely voting and opinion writing from the Justices’ question patterns at oral argument. For this Thanksgiving Wednesday – day one of our analysis of Justice Mary Jane Theis.