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Judicial Statistics
118 published works
New York Court Watcher
The NY Court of Appeals: A Brief Stat-Pack on the Wilson Court (Part 2–Criminal Caseload)
In Part 1, we looked at the number of appeals decided by New York's highest court, from the last few years of the Chief Judge Wachtler era to the years…
De Novo
Some SCOVA Stats from Judge Ortiz
By Jay O'Keeffe
Earlier this week, I caught a webcast replay of Judge Ortiz's overview of recent civil decisions from the Supreme Court of Virginia. It was characteristically excellent (except that the most…
Ohio Appellate Insights
Where the grants come from: District-level trends in 2026 jurisdictional acceptances
By Terry Posey
Question: Among the Ohio Supreme Court's accepted jurisdictional appeals year-to-date (29 grants out of 443 decisions, Jan. 6–June 11, 2026), is there a discernible pattern in which appellate district the…
Reverse & Render
2025 Texas Supreme Court Statistics are in
Causes decided are down If 2024 was a banner year for the number of causes decided by the state's highest civil appeals court, the court made up for it in…
Southern California Appellate News
SCOCA year in review
The Judicial Council has posted Year in Review: California Supreme Court -- Highlights and key statistics from the 2024–2025 court year:The court heard oral argument in all three of its traditional courtrooms—sitting in…
SCOTxBlog
A Statpack for the Texas Supreme Court’s 2025 term
By Don Cruse
“What are the Odds?” updated through 2025 The state bar appellate section invited me to speak in September 2025. As has become my own little Labor Day tradition, I updated…
Pennsylvania Divorce and Domestic Relations Blog
Appellate Courts & Their Love Letters in the Sand
By Mark Ashton
A Note: I wrote the column published below earlier this month. I deferred publishing it because I am reticent to criticize the appellate judicial process even though I have lots…
On Brief: Iowa's Appellate Blog
A statistical review of the 2024-2025 Iowa Supreme Court term: Continued unpredictability in close cases
[This article by Matthew A. McGuire, Spencer S. Cady, and Charmaine Rusk was originally published in the August 2025 issue of The Iowa Lawyer magazine.] The 2024-2025 term was the third…
Ohio Appellate Insights
A year in numbers: Decade highs and lows detailed in Ohio Supreme Court’s 2024 Annual Statistics Report
The Ohio Supreme Court’s Office of the Clerk recently released the Court’s Annual Statistics Report for the 2024 calendar year. Keep reading for the most up-to-date information on Supreme Court…
Reverse & Render
Texas Supreme Court statistics for 2024
Last year--the calendar year from January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2024--was a productive year for the state's highest civil court. By my count, the court disposed of 124 causes…