Unlike professional athletes, a judge’s career statistics aren’t typically the object of obsession. Illinois Appellate Justice Robert E. Gordon, in his nearly 18 years on the bench, certainly has big numbers. His trial courtrooms netted more than 1,400 jury verdicts in 10 years in Cook County Circuit Court, and in his eight years hearing appeals, he’s been as busy as any justice on the 1st District. “That doesn’t mean a hill of beans,” he said. On his extensive wall-to-wall …