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How Are Appellate Panels Selected (Part 2 of a 4 Part Post)

By Kirk Jenkins on April 10, 2021
Posted in Briefing, Oral Argument, Voting

With this post, we begin our short review of some of the academic literature regarding panel effects.

Of course, the first question one encounters when taking a case before an appellate court is how one’s panel will be chosen.  A majority of appellate courts state, either in their operating procedures or their rules, that appellate…

A Short Review of The Scholarship on Panel Effects (Part 1 of 4 – Why It Matters)

By Kirk Jenkins on April 8, 2021
Posted in Voting

This week, we’re taking a short break from our usual number-heavy analysis for another glance at some of the vast academic literature on the analytic-driven analysis of appellate decision making.  This is a four-part post – two here and two over at the California Supreme Court Review – sampling some of the literature on “panel…

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In the next few years, data analytics will revolutionize litigation. At the Illinois Supreme Court Review, we’ve mined dozens of data points from every one of the nearly 2,900 decisions handed down by the Illinois Supreme Court from 1990 through 2017. We use that unique database to share new insights culled from tens of thousands of pages of opinions about the Justices and their decision-making process, the parties and issues which come before the Court.

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