Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Federal Stats released!

From Howard Bashman at How Appealing:

“Annual Report and Judicial Business of 2019 Now Available”:
The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts issued this news release today.
You can access the annual report at this link, while the underlying statistics can be accessed via this link (with the appellate-related stuff specifically here).

Update: Here are direct links to certain items that may be of particular interest: (1) number and percentage of cases decided with and without oral argument, by circuit; (2) number and percentage of cases decided by published or unpublished opinion or judgment order, by circuit; and (3) number of cases per circuit that have been under submission for three months or longer."

Table B-12 shows that 93.2% of 9th Cir. decisions are unpublished (only the 11th Cir. is higher, at 93.5%).
Table B-10 shows that 79% of 9th Cir. appeals are decided on submission (without oral argument).
Table B-5 shows that 16.3% of private civil appeals win reversals.
Table B-4A shows that the median time for a civil appeal is 15.9 months from notice of appeal to decision.