Friday, July 16, 2021

State Stats are out!

 

The 2021 Court Statistics Report on Statewide Caseload Trends is now out and available here!

These stats come with this disclaimer: FISCAL YEAR 2019 -20 DATA WERE SIGNIFICANTLY IMPACTED DUE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AS COURTS OPERATIONS WERE LIMITED BETWEEN MARCH AND JUNE 2020.

Supreme Court
• The Supreme Court issued 78 written opinions during the year.
• Filings totaled 6,470, and dispositions totaled 6,417.
• Automatic appeals arising out of judgments of death totaled 5 cases, and the court disposed of 17 such appeals by written opinion.
• The Supreme Court ordered 26 Court of Appeal opinions depublished in this fiscal year. (See page 23)

11% of all petitions for review were granted. More specifically 4% for civil appeals and 13% for criminal appeals. See Table 1 on page 16 for details.

Courts of Appeal
• Total contested matters for the Courts of Appeal totaled 17,889, made up of 12,043 records of appeal and 5,846 original proceedings.
• Dispositions in the Courts of Appeal totaled 20,772. Of these dispositions, 14,748 were appeals and 6,024 were original proceedings.
• Dispositions of appeals by written opinion totaled 8,736, appeals disposed of without written opinion totaled 3,847, and appeals disposed of without a record filed totaled 2,256. Dispositions of original proceedings by written opinion totaled 338, and original proceedings disposed of without written opinion totaled 5,818.
• Statewide, 9 percent of Court of Appeal majority opinions were published.

Ventura (2/6) comes out on top for median civil appeal time at 480 days. The Statewide average is 567 days, with the Sixth in last place at 937 days (the 3d is second to last at 749 days, not that far behind the 5th at 738 days). (See Figure 33 on page 36.)

The Statewide average for publication of a civil appeal is 18%, with the First and Third most likely to publish (at 26%) and the Fourth least likely (at 14%). (See Fig. 30 on page 35.)

As for dispositions, the civil appeal affirmance rate dropped a point to 78%, the dismissal rate went up a point to 5%, and the reversal rate dropped a point to 17% (See Fig. 25 on page 34).