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Judicial Statistics
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Southern California Appellate News
Fed Stats out!
The annual fed courts stats report is available!Judicial Business 2024 -- This report presents statistics on the work of the federal Judiciary for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, comparing data…
Last Month at the Supreme Court
Chief Justice’s Year-End Report
By Chantel Febus, James Azadian, Christopher Sakauye
On December 31, 2024, Chief Justice Roberts issued his annual year-end written report. The New Year’s Eve report is an annual tradition, beginning with Chief Justice Warren Burger in 1970,…
Southern California Appellate News
SCOCA annual review
The Judicial Council has posted: Year in Review: California Supreme Court -- Highlights and key statistics from the 2023–2024 court year.The court in December marked its return to hearing oral argument in Los…
On Brief: Iowa's Appellate Blog
A statistical review of the 2023-2024 Iowa Supreme Court term: The Court finds a new equilibrium
[This article by Matthew A. McGuire, Spencer S. Cady, and Chris E. Slack was originally published in the August 2024 issue of The Iowa Lawyer magazine.] The period between 2018 and 2022…
China Justice Observer
SPC Reports 9.12% Rise in Cases, Surges in Key Areas
By Publisher
On 24 Oct. 2023, China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC) published key judicial data for all Chinese courts from January to September 2023. The specific data is as follows. Courts at…
Southern California Appellate News
9th Cir. 2022 Annual Report
The 2022 9th Circuit Annual Report is now available here.Our court of appeals continued to be the nation’s busiest federal appellate court, accounting for 20.5% of all new appeals nationally,…
China Justice Observer
SPC Reports on Work of Chinese Courts (2018 -2023)
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On the afternoon of 7 Mar. 2023, Zhou Qiang (周强), then President of China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC), delivered an SPC’s work report to the first session of the 14th…
Southern California Appellate News
2023 CA Stats Report
The Judicial Council has posted its 2023 Court Statistics Report Statewide Caseload Trends 2012–13 Through 2021–22. Summary of 2023 Court Statistics Report -- Caseload data for the California Supreme Court,…
California Supreme Court Review
Was the Supreme Court’s Criminal Caseload Decreasing in the 1990s?
By Kirk Jenkins
Today, we’re reviewing the Supreme Court’s criminal docket during the 1990s – were total caseloads declining and was the Court writing longer opinions? For the decade, the Court decided 523…
Illinois Supreme Court Review
Was the Supreme Court’s Criminal Caseload Declining in the 1990s?
By Kirk Jenkins
Today, we’re looking at the data for the criminal docket at the Supreme Court during the 1990s – specifically (1) the total caseload; (2) the total number of pages of…