This time, as we continue our series tracking average votes to affirm every District and Division of the Appellate Court in criminal cases, we review the data on Second District cases.
The 1990s began at a low point for Second District cases, with an average votes to affirm of only 0.25. In 1991, average votes
This week, we’re continuing our series of posts looking more closely at how the Districts and Divisions of the Appellate Court have fared at the Supreme Court by tracking the average votes to affirm in civil cases year by year. Today, we’re looking at the Second District, and tomorrow the Third.
The Second District averaged
Last time, we reviewed the 3-year floating average reversal rates in criminal cases for the Divisions of the First District. In this post, we’re looking at the data for the rest of the state: the Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Districts of the Appellate Court, and direct appeals from trial court judgments.
Between 1992 and
In Table 1342 below, we report the three-year floating average reversal rates for the Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Appellate Districts for the years 1992 to 1999. The Second District fared best during these years. The Third and Fourth were relatively equal, and the Fifth District fared worst.
The Second District had only one spike,
Yesterday, we reviewed the data on how the Second District criminal cases decided by the Supreme Court between 1990 and 2004 were distributed among the Second’s twelve counties. Today, we’re finishing our review, looking at the years 2005 to 2019.
In 2005, the Court decided four cases from Du Page county, two from Kane and
Last time, we reviewed how the Supreme Court’s civil cases from the Second District were distributed among the District’s Circuit Courts, and then compared each county’s share of the total cases to its share of the total population of the Second District. This week, we’re looking at the data for criminal cases.
In 1990, the
Last time, we began reviewing in five year increments the counties which produced the civil cases from the Second District which the Supreme Court decided between 1990 and 2004.
In 2005, the Court decided two cases from Lake county and one each from Du Page, McHenry, Ogle and Kane. In 2006, the Court decided three
Last week, we reviewed which Districts of the Appellate Court produced the Supreme Court’s civil and criminal dockets. This week and in the weeks to come, we’ll be drilling down on those numbers to the trial courts. The last time we reviewed the county data eighteen months ago, we reviewed all the counties of Illinois
Yesterday, we reviewed the origin of the Court’s criminal docket for the years 2005 through 2010. Today, we finish the journey – the years 2011 through 2017.
One hundred and one of the 244 criminal, quasi-criminal and disciplinary cases the Court has heard 2011-2017 came from Chicago’s First District – 41.39%. The Court decided eight
Last week, we began looking at which Districts and Divisions of the Appellate Court produced the Supreme Court’s criminal, quasi-criminal and attorney disciplinary docket for the years 1990 through 2003. This week, we’re looking at the rest of our study period. First up, 2004 through 2010.
For the years 2004 through 2010, 131 of the