- Unless otherwise noted, statistics in this report cover fiscal year 2019 ending September 30.
- The Ninth Circuit continued to be the nation’s busiest federal appellate court, accounting for 21 percent of all new appeals nationally.
- Of the new filings, about 28.4 percent of all new appeals in the Ninth Circuit involved immigration and other agency matters, while 44.4 percent of new filings were pro se cases (those involving at least one self represented litigant).
- The court’s overall reversal rate was 9.3 percent, compared to a national average of 8.2 percent. The reversal rate was 11.3 percent for criminal cases; 18.4 percent for civil cases involving the federal government and 16.3 for non-government civil cases; and 5.3 percent for administrative
- agency cases.
- In FY 2019, judicial panels produced 464 published opinions and 6,910 unpublished opinions.
- in FY 2019, the median time interval from filing of a notice of appeal to final disposition was 10.8 months, down from 11.7 months in FY 2018 and 13 months in FY 2017. The time interval from the filing of a case in a lower court to a final disposition was 33.2 months
- Once an appeal was fully briefed, Ninth Circuit judges decide all types of cases fairly quickly. In FY 2019, just as in 2018, the median time interval for panel decisions was 1.2 months for a case in which oral argument was held and about six days for cases submitted on briefs.
- Of the 6,604 written opinions, excluding consolidations, issued by the court in FY 2019, 54.4 percent were authored by active circuit judges, 38.4 percent by senior judges, and 7.2 percent by visiting judges sitting by designation.
Notable SoCal-related obits include Judge Real (pg. 19) and Judge George Schiavelli (pg. 20).
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