How Likely Is A Unanimous Affirmance, District By District (Part 2 – 2000-2009)

Today we're continuing our two-part analysis of each District of the Appellate Court's performance at the Supreme Court since 1990. Question 1, which we address below, is how likely is a civil decision from each part of the Appellate Court to be affirmed unanimously? Question 2, which we'll look at for the next post, is among the rest of the civil cases - all cases not affirmed unanimously - what's the average votes to affirm the Appellate Court? This week we're looking at the years 2000 through 2009.

In 2000, all the civil cases decided by the Court from the Third District were unanimously affirmed. Two-thirds of the decisions from the Fourth District and from Division Four of the First District were unanimously affirmed as well. Meanwhile, none of the decisions from Division One, Three or Six of the First or the Second District were affirmed unanimously. In 2001, all decisions from Division Six of the First District were affirmed unanimously. Three-quarters of