Today, we’re finishing our trip through the Court’s docket of civil constitutional law cases, 1990-2018.
Civil constitutional law cases have been comparatively uncommon on the Court’s docket from 2014 to 2019. The Court has heard only fifteen cases in all: one in 2014, two each in 2015 and 2016, five in 2017, three in 2018
Constitutional law cases were down sharply as a share of the Supreme Court’s civil docket between 2006 and 2013, with the Court deciding only thirty cases – five in 2006, nine in 2007, two in 2008, two in 2009, four in 2010, five in 2011, one in 2012 and two in 2013.
Although the docket
Last time, we reviewed the data for the Court’s civil constitutional law cases between 1990 and 1997. This time, we’re looking at the numbers for the years 1998 to 2005.
Constitutional law cases were slightly up for the years 1998 to 2005, with the Court deciding fifty-three civil constitutional law cases. Specifically, the Court decided
Today, we’re continuing our ongoing series of posts looking at the Court’s performance over the years, one area of law at a time. This week, we’re looking at the Court’s history with civil constitutional law cases (for purposes of this analysis, we’re disregarding the constitutional law cases which arise in criminal cases).
Between 1990 and
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