Yesterday, we began our examination of the Court’s civil procedure decisions. Today, we’re looking at the flip side – the Court’s 252 criminal procedure cases.
The Court decided 7 criminal procedure cases in 1992, 9 cases in 1993, 13 cases in 1994, 9 cases in 1995, 11 cases in 1996 and 6 cases in 1997.
For the past two weeks, we’ve been reviewing in detail the Court’s constitutional law decisions on both the civil and criminal law side. This week and next, we’re looking at one of the Court’s next most common types of cases – civil and criminal procedure decisions. Between 1992 and 2017, the Court decided 170 cases
This week, we’re taking a closer look at what kinds of cases wind up in the Court’s constitutional law docket, and whether the Court is more or less likely to reverse depending on who won below. Today, we’re reviewing the numbers for the criminal docket.
Yesterday, we showed that the Court has taken roughly equal
Last week, we tracked the Court’s yearly caseload in constitutional law on both the civil and criminal dockets. This week, we’re digging deeper to answer three questions: (1) does the Court tend to take more conservative or liberal decisions from the Court of Appeal involving constitutional law issues; (2) is the Court more (or less)
Yesterday, we began a review of the Court’s constitutional law caseload on the civil side of the docket. Today, we begin our review of the Court’s criminal constitutional law cases.
The Court decided four criminal cases in 1992 which principally involved constitutional law issues. The Court decided three cases in 1993, five in 1994 and
Earlier this week at the Illinois Supreme Court Review, we began an intensive review of the Court’s caseload, one area of law at a time. We began with the area of law most closely identified with courts of last resort – constitutional law. Let’s start our review of the Court’s decisions with the civil
Last time, we analyzed the data on lag times in civil cases – grant of review to oral argument and argument to decision – to determine whether lag time is correlated with the result in the case: do affirmances or reversals take longer? We determined that there’s no consistent relationship over time between lag time
Last week, we compared lag times in the Illinois Supreme Court’s decision making – grant of review to argument and argument to decision – to the ultimate result in the case, analyzing whether lag time is correlated to the result. The answer is yes – for the most part, affirmances take longer to go from
Last time, we reviewed the lag time data – grant of review to oral argument, and oral argument to decision – for the Court’s civil cases between 1993 and 2017. Now, we’re turning our attention to the criminal docket.
Lag times for the criminal docket as a whole are skewed, of course, by the death
Last time, we were reviewing the data on the Court’s record with Court of Appeal cases that sparked a dissent below. This week, we’re addressing the controversial topic of appellate delays – both from the grant of review to oral argument, and from argument to decision.
We report the data for the years 1993 through