Yesterday, we began looking at a new question in our ongoing studies – what areas of law does the State most often appeal in civil cases? We began in our last post with the years 1990 through 1996. Today, we turn to the years 1997 through 2003.
For the first part of our study period,
Over the past few weeks, we’ve looked at how often the State is the appellant in civil and criminal cases at the Supreme Court, and at the distribution of the Court’s cases among the Districts and Divisions of the Appellate Court. This week, we turn our attention to a new topic: what areas of law
Yesterday, we reviewed the data about how the Court’s criminal docket has been divided between cases in which the State was the appellant and defense appeals. Today, we look at the State’s year-by-year winning percentage in each role.
For the years 1990 through 1995, the State’s winning percentage in criminal appeals varied up and down
Last week, we reviewed the data on how often public entities were parties in civil cases at the Court. Of course, criminal cases are a different matter; the State is a party to every appeal. So this week, we address a slightly different question: how many of the Court’s criminal appeals involve appeals by the
Yesterday, we looked at how often governmental entities have appeared as parties in civil cases at the Illinois Supreme Court. Today, we address the governmental entities’ winning percentage.
Governmental entities won sixty percent of the time in 1990 as petitioners. They won half the time in 1991, 60% in 1992 and 50% in 1993. In
For the past several weeks, we’ve looked at the Court’s record with death penalty appeals. This week and next, we’re looking at the Court’s record with parties that are governmental entities.
In Table 559, we report the total number of petitioners who were government entities between 1990 and 2004. Governmental petitioners varied widely from 1990