Yesterday, we began our journey through the Appellate Court designations for criminal cases with the years 1990 through 1996.  Today, we address the years 1997 through 2003.

The Court decided three cases from Division One of the First District in 2002, two in 2000 and 1997 and one in 1998.  The Court decided four cases…

Over the last few weeks, we’ve been looking at how the Supreme Court’s civil docket is distributed among the Districts and Divisions of the Appellate Court.  This week and next, we’ll turn our attention to the Court’s criminal caseload.

We’ve speculated in past posts that population distribution might be a rough approximator for how the…

Yesterday, we reviewed the year-by-year data for how the Court’s civil caseload was distributed in the Appellate Court for the years 2004 through 2010. Today, we review the data for the years 2011 through 2017.

Since 2011, the Court has decided exactly 100 cases originating in Chicago’s First District – 43.67% of its civil caseload.…

Last week, we began our review of how the Court’s civil cases are distributed among the Districts and Divisions of the Appellate Court. We began by covering the years 1999 through 2003. This week, we address the more recent years in our study period – first up, the Court’s civil docket from 2004 through 2010.…

Yesterday, we began our study of where in the Appellate Court the Court has drawn its civil docket each year. Today, we’re reviewing the years 1997 through 2003.

For the years 1990 through 1996, cases from Cook County’s First District were consistently about ten percentage points less of the civil docket than one would expect…