The last couple of weeks, we’ve looked at reversal rates for the Appellate Court in cases at the Supreme Court. But the difficulty which few people talk about is that reversal rates are nearly always a composite statistic – either “all cases,” or at most all civil cases or all criminal. But mathematically, a high
Last time, we reviewed the reversal rates at the Supreme Court in criminal cases for the Divisions of Chicago’s First District of the Appellate Court. This time, we’re looking at the reversal rates across the rest of the state.
The Third District fared worst from 1990 to 2020, with a collective reversal rate of 64.18%.
This week, we’re reviewing the reversal rates for the Appellate Court in criminal cases since 1990. First up, the six Divisions of Chicago’s First District of the Appellate Court.
Since 1990, Division One of the First has fared worst, with a reversal rate in criminal cases of 57.14%. Division Three was next at 56.52%. The
Today, we’re discussing the civil reversal rates from 1990 to 2020 for the Districts of the Appellate Court outside of Chicago – Two, Three, Four and Five.
Not surprisingly to long-time readers of this blog, the Fifth District leads with a reversal rate in civil cases of 72.43%. The other three districts are quite close
This week, we’re returning to perhaps the most often-written-about statistics in judicial analytics: reversal rates. First up, the Divisions of Chicago’s First District of the Appellate Court in civil cases.
The overall numbers for Divisions One through Six are reported in Table 1695. All six Divisions are relatively close. The highest reversal rate 1990-2020 was