Today, we’re completing our trip through the reversal rates for the Districts of the Appellate Court, divided by areas of civil law. For this final post, we’re looking at the Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Districts for the years 2010 through 2019.
The overall reversal rate for these districts was 100% in employment law, property
For the final phase of our review, we’re looking at the reversal rate at the Supreme Court in civil cases from the First District for the years 2010 through 2019.
We begin with the overall reversal rates for the First District, one area of civil law at a time. All of the contract, commercial law,
This time, we’re reviewing the reversal rates in civil cases, divided by the area of law, for the Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Districts of the Appellate Court between 2000 and 2009.
Overall, 77.8% of employment law cases were reversed by the Supreme Court. The reversal rate for commercial law cases was 71.4%. Two-thirds of
Today, we’re continuing our review of civil reversal rates of the Districts and Divisions of the Appellate Court, divided by areas of civil law for the years 2000 through 2009.
Overall, the Supreme Court reversed 100% of the decisions from the First District in wills and estates law and arbitration. Four-fifths of domestic relations decisions
This time, we’re concluding the first step in our review of the Districts’ reversal rates, one area of civil law at a time, for the 1990s. Overall, the reversal rate was 100% in wills and estates law and property law. The reversal rate for workers compensation law was 82.4%. Insurance law’s reversal rate was 78.3%.
Today, we’re beginning a new multi-part series of posts, looking at the reversal rates for each District and Division of the Appellate Court by the area of law involved in the case. First up: the First District Appellate Court in the 1990s. There was only one environmental law and one election law case, and each
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