For the past two weeks, we’ve been analyzing the voting dynamics on the Illinois Supreme Court, determining which Justices voted together most and least often over time in non-unanimous cases. Today, we conclude our analysis with the criminal docket between 2010 and 2015.
Just as we saw on the civil side, Justice Burke’s closest match
For the past two weeks, we’ve been studying the voting dynamics of the Illinois Supreme Court, tracking which Justices voted together most (and least) often in non-unanimous civil and criminal cases. This week, we’ve arrived at the most recent data. Today, we’re taking a look at agreement rates in civil cases from 2010 to 2015.
Yesterday, we analyzed the agreement rates between all combinations of the Justices in non-unanimous civil cases between 2005 and 2009. Today, we turn our attention to the Court’s criminal docket during the same years.
We report the data for Chief Justice McMorrow, Justice Burke and Justice Garman in Table 404 below. Chief Justice McMorrow’s closest
Last week, we began our study of the Court’s voting dynamics. We analyzed agreement rates between all combinations of the Justices in non-unanimous civil and criminal cases between 2000 and 2004. This week, we’ll turn our attention to the second five years of the period, 2005 to 2009. We’ll begin with the Court’s civil cases.
Yesterday, we began our review of the Court’s voting dynamics, analyzing the Justices’ agreement rates in non-unanimous civil cases between 2000 and 2004. Today, we turn to the Court’s agreement rates in non-unanimous criminal cases.
We showed yesterday that Chief Justice McMorrow voted most often with Justice Freeman in civil cases. That was true on
Last week, we completed our comparison of the Justices’ majority opinions in civil and criminal cases. This week, we begin our study of the Court’s voting dynamics. Which Justices agreed most (and least) often? Today, we track how often every combination of Justices voted together in non-unanimous civil cases between 2000 and 2004.
In Table
Yesterday, we reviewed the frequency with which the Justices of the Illinois Supreme Court voted in the majority in divided civil cases between 2008 and 2015. Today, we turn our attention to the Court’s non-unanimous criminal cases for the same years.
We report the data in Table 383 below. In 2008, Justice Fitzgerald led the
Last week, we turned our attention to tracking how often each Justice voted with the majority in cases in which the Court reached a divided decision. In Part 1 of our series, we addressed the years 2000 through 2007. Today, we turn our attention to the Court’s civil docket between 2008 and 2015.
In Table
Yesterday, we turned our attention to determining which Justices most often voted with the majority in non-unanimous civil decisions between 2000 and 2007. Today, we address the same question for non-unanimous criminal cases.
The Court decided an unusually high number of non-unanimous criminal cases in 2000, so the Table shows spikes that year across the
Last week, we wrapped up our consideration of which Justices of the Illinois Supreme Court most often spoke for the Court in the majority opinion. Today, we approach the issue of the individual Justices’ influence in another way: which Justices most often voted with the majority in non-unanimous cases?
The data for civil cases between