For the past two weeks, we've been reviewing which trial courts, year by year, have produced the Court's civil and criminal dockets. This week, we're looking at the years 2000 through 2004 – first up, the civil cases.
In 2000, the Court decided nineteen civil cases from Cook County. The rest of the cases were widely scattered. The Court decided three cases each from St. Clair and Lake counties, two from Winnebago, and one each from Will, Sangamon, Du Page, Madison, McHenry, Kane, Franklin, Adams and Monroe counties, as well as one case in the Court's original jurisdiction and one direct appeal from an administrative board.
In 2001, the Court decided twenty-four civil cases from Cook County. The Court decided five from Du Page and two from Will, Sangamon, Madison and McLean counties, as well as two cases arising from the Court's original jurisdiction. The Court decided one case each from St. Clair, Lake, Champaign, Ogle, Kane, Jefferson, Macon, Tazewell, McDonough, Hardin and Kendall counties, as well as one certified question from the Northern District of Illinois, by way of the Seventh Circuit.
The data for 2002 is reported in Table 628 below. The Court decided twenty-two civil cases from Cook County that year. The Court decided four cases from St. Clair and Du Page counties, three from Champaign County, two from Williamson and Tazewell, and one each from Will, Madison, Peoria, McHenry, Jackson, Kankakee, Kane, Christian, Boone, McLean, DeWitt and Edgar counties, plus once again a single case on certified question from the Northern District of Illinois.
In 2003, the Court decided seventeen civil cases from Cook County. The Court decided four cases from Sangamon County and two apiece from Will, Du Page, Madison, McHenry, McLean and Macon counties. The Court decided one civil case from St. Clair, Lake, Kane, Jefferson, Rock Island, Putnam, Vermilion, Randolph, Knox, Coles, Adams and Pope counties, plus one more certified question from the Northern District of Illinois.
Finally, in 2004, the Court decided twenty-three civil cases from Cook County. The Court decided six cases from Du Page County, four from Champaign, three from St. Clair and Lake counties and two from Peoria County. The Court decided one case apiece from Will, Sangamon, Madison, La Salle, Wabash, Winnebago, Kane, Rock Island, McLean, Crawford and Union counties, plus one case on direct appeal from an administrative agency, and one certified question, this time from the Central District of Illinois.
Join us back here tomorrow as we review the data for the criminal docket between 2000 and 2004.
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