Saturday, November 10, 2018

How Do the Illinois and California Supreme Courts’ Criminal Dockets Compare (Part 2)?

POSTED IN AREAS OF LAW, DATA ANALYTICS

Yesterday, we began our comparison of the Illinois and California Supreme Courts’ criminal dockets for the past twenty-eight years.  We covered the years 1990 through 2003.  Today, we’re looking at the years 2004 to 2017.
From 1990 to 2003, the Illinois Supreme Court wrote more criminal decisions than the California Supreme Court did.  Since that time, the numbers have flipped.  Between 2004 and 2010, the Illinois Supreme Court handed down 353 criminal decisions, while the California Supreme Court published 441. 


In Table 622, we review the Illinois Supreme Court’s criminal cases from 2004 to 2010.  With the death  penalty docket almost entirely wound down, the leading issue on the Court’s criminal docket was criminal procedure (98 cases), followed by constitutional law (91), habeas corpus (48), sentencing law (28) and juvenile issues (23).

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