2019 Cal Stats posted!

The 2019 Court Statistics Report has been posted!

• The Supreme Court issued 85 written opinions during the year.
• The Supreme Court ordered 20 Court of Appeal opinions depublished in this fiscal year.
• Odds of positive action on a petition for review (i.e., anything other than a summary denial) is 7% overall, and 3% for civil appeals.
• Statewide, 8% of Court of Appeal majority opinions were published. The First Dist. has a 12% publication rate, the 5th has a 3%.
• Looking just at civil appeals, the statewide publication rate is 15%, with the 3d in the lead at 28% and the 5th at only 8%
• The Third District had the highest level of pending appeals per justice as of June 30, 2018—44 percent higher than the statewide average. The Third District reported the highest number of pending fully briefed appeals per authorized justice, 87.
• The Second District had the highest levels of filings per justice in 2017-2018. Filings per justice in the Second District were 17 percent higher than the statewide average. The Second District reported the lowest number of pending fully briefed appeals per authorized justice, 35.
• The First District had the lowest levels of filings and dispositions per justice.
• In terms of speed for civil appeals, the top 3 fastest Courts of Appeal are 2/6 (a speedy 410 median days from notice of appeal to opinion), 4/1 and 1/1; the bottom three are 1/2, 6, and 1/4 (at a whopping 967 median days from notice of appeal to opinion)