Yesterday, we studied whether there’s a constant relationship, year after year, between the ultimate result in civil cases and the lag time to a decision – the number of days from allowance of the PLA to oral argument, and from argument to decision. Today, we review the year-by-year data for the criminal docket.
Between 2010
Last week, we showed that in contrast to the data for the California Supreme Court, time under submission from the allowing of the petition for leave to appeal to oral argument and argument to decision was longer at the Illinois Supreme Court for reversals than for affirmances. In those posts, we looked at the data
Yesterday, we demonstrated that while affirmances generally are pending longer in California from grant of review to argument to decision, the evidence is more equivocal in Illinois, at least on the civil side. Today, we look at the criminal side of the docket. So, does there appear to be any correlation between the final result
Last week, we looked at the average time under submission at the Illinois Supreme Court from allowance of the petition for leave to appeal to oral argument to decision. Over at the California Supreme Court, we’ve shown that affirmances generally take longer at each step of the way than reversals do. So is there
Yesterday, we began our review of lag times at the Illinois Supreme Court with a review of the Court’s civil cases from 2010 to 2016. Today, we turn our attention to the Court’s criminal cases.
We have grant-to-oral argument date for 243 criminal cases, and oral argument-to-decision data for 270 cases. The mean time in
For the next couple of weeks, we’ll be taking a brief time off from our look at the Court’s oral arguments in order to look at an issue we’re studying over on California Supreme Court Review – what can be inferred from the average time a case remains pending at the Court, from the allowing
Yesterday, we investigated whether more questions at oral argument meant a longer wait for the opinion by tracking the correlation between total questions and lag time. Today, we apply the same test to the Court’s criminal cases.
We report the correlation between days from the oral argument to decision and total number of questions in
For several weeks, we’ve been evaluating what we can infer from the pattern of the Illinois Supreme Court’s questions in civil and criminal cases. This week, we turn to a new question: does an active bench mean you’ll be waiting a longer time for the opinion? One can easily imagine that the answer might be
Yesterday, we continued our analysis of the Illinois Supreme Court’s time under submission from 2008 to the end of 2015, looking at whether unanimous decisions are generally under submission for substantially less time than non-unanimous ones. Today, we address the year-by-year data for the criminal docket. The numbers demonstrate that although, all things being equal,
Last week, we began our examination of the Illinois Supreme Court’s lag time on civil cases in unanimous and non-unanimous cases. This week, we turn to the Court’s criminal, quasi-criminal, juvenile and disciplinary cases.
Interestingly, criminal cases are under submission for less time, on average, for nearly every year since 2000 than the comparable numbers