Last week, we began our review of the individual Justices’ work on the Illinois Supreme Court. We started with a look at how authorship of majority opinions was distributed year by year between 2000 and 2004. Today, we turn to majority opinions in civil cases between 2005 and 2009.
In Table 364 below, we report
Yesterday, we began our analysis of the work of the individual Justices at the Illinois Supreme Court by analyzing the distribution of majority opinions in civil cases between 2000 and 2004. Today, we turn our attention to the Court’s criminal docket during those same years.
Between 2000 and 2002, the non-unanimous majority opinions in criminal
Today, we begin a new phase of our analysis of the Illinois Supreme Court’s recent history, as we turn our attention to the work of the individual Justices. Over the next two months, we’ll be assessing how influential individual Justices appear to be in swaying the Court to their point of view. First up: have
Today, we conclude our look at the evolution of the Court’s majority opinions with a look at the criminal docket between 2008 and 2015. Last week, we observed two trends in the data. First, majority opinions in non-unanimous decisions were consistently longer than majorities in unanimous decisions – and the margin between non-unanimous and unanimous
Last week, we started working on a new question – how has the length of the Illinois Supreme Court’s majority opinions evolved in civil and criminal cases since 2000? Last week, we reviewed the years 2000-2007; this week, we’ll look at the years 2008 through 2015.
The data for civil cases is reported in Table
Yesterday, we began our analysis of how the Illinois Supreme Court’s majority opinions have changed in the past sixteen years with a look at the civil docket between 2000 and 2007. Today, we review the data for the criminal docket during the same years.
Once again, majority opinions in non-unanimous cases tended to be longer
Today, we begin a new topic in our analysis of the Illinois Supreme Court’s decision making – the average length of the Court’s majority, special concurrence and dissenting opinions.
In Table 338 below, we report the average length of majority opinions in civil cases between 2000 and 2007, divided into non-unanimous and unanimous decisions of
Yesterday, we reviewed the record-holders from the last seven years of oral arguments at the Illinois Supreme Court: most and least total questions, most and least questions for appellants and appellees, and so on.
Today, we turn to an entirely different question: what’s the likelihood that the first question came from the author of the
Last week, we took a close look at the individual Justices’ special concurrences and dissents in civil cases between 2005 and 2009. Today, we turn to the opinions written by the Justices during the most recent five years of our study period, 2010-2014.
Justice Burke was the most frequent voice of the Court during the
Yesterday, we concluded our review of the individual Justices’ writing between 2000 and 2004 with a look at the dissents. Today, we turn to the majority opinions between 2005 and 2009.
With the election of Justice Lloyd Karmeier in 2004, the Court shifted from a 5-2 to a 4-3 majority for Justices elected as Democrats.