Now we turn to the records of the individual Justices. Having addressed the trends in the length of the Court’s opinions, we turn now to the Justices’ writing. Have certain Justices, on average, tended to write longer opinions than other members of the Court? Because each Justice writes between four and eight civil majority opinions
What Determines the Length of the Illinois Supreme Court’s Opinions?
This week, we turn to another subject in our analysis of the Illinois Supreme Court’s decision making in civil cases – what determines the length of the Court’s opinions?
Majority opinions are not only comparatively short at the Illinois Supreme Court – they appear to be getting shorter:
We would expect majority opinions in divided