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Court Activity, Division I (4) - 2012 Annual Report

  -------Appeals-------- -----Other Reviews-----  
  Criminal Civil Total Personal
Restraint
Discretionary
Review
Total All
Reviews
FILINGS
Total Filings  383  601  984  314  197  511  1,495 
RESOLUTIONS (5)
Opinions Published  39  76  115  124 
Opinions Unpublished  336  236  572  16  25  597 
Opinion Terminating Review  375  312  687  12  22  34  721 
Dismissed  303  308  316 
Transferred/Certified 
Review Not Accepted  25  25  27 
Other Terminations  10  11  21 
Order Terminating Review  19  24  309  36  345  369 
Decided on Merits  10  11  12 
Dismissed  79  195  274  29  50  79  353 
Review Not Accepted  52  52  59 
Other Terminations  13  18  22 
Ruling Terminating Review  95  215  310  32  104  136  446 
Total Resolved  475  546  1,021  353  162  515  1,536 
PENDING AT YEAR END (1)
Cases Stayed  28  34  60  69  103 
Brief Not Filed  201  243  444  154  69  223  667 
Appellant Brief Filed  75  55  130  12  13  143 
Respondent Brief Filed  180  193  373  15  14  29  402 
Remanded to Trial Court 
Set for Commissioners' Calendar 
Ruling Referred to Panel  10 
Set for Oral Argument (2)  37  72  109  110 
Total Awaiting Hearing  500  593  1,093  243  106  349  1,442 
Opinion/Order in Process  21  49  70    71 
Total Pending Decision  521  642  1,163  243  107  350  1,513 
MANDATED
Opinion Terminating Review  319  321  640  10  21  31  671 
Order Terminating Review  13  17  302  30  332  349 
Ruling Terminating Review  94  227  321  28  96  124  445 
Other Decision Terminating Review (3)  14  15  21 
Total Mandated  418  575  993  341  152  493  1,486 

(1) As a result of the recent transition to the new Appellate Court Records and Data System(ACORDS-II), measurement of resolution types and the various stages of pending caseload are not comparable to measurements for prior years. Extreme caution should be used in interpreting 2003 and future activity relative to that shown for prior years.
(2) Set for Oral Argument counts are influenced by procedural differences among divisions in setting cases. Division III, due to hearings in multiple locations, often delays the setting of cases until there are sufficient numbers to warrant travel, but cases are usually set only six weeks out.
(3) Includes completions for secondary cases, which are those consolidated with a primary case and disposed by mandate/certificate of finality entered in the primary case.
(4) To alleviate case congestion, Division II transferred 50 cases in 2009 and 45 cases in 2010 (which would otherwise have been heard in Division II) to Division I for preparation of opinions and mandates. A transferred resolution appears for each of these cases in Division II figures. Each transferred case is included in filing counts in both divisions. The opinions for those transferred cases are included in Division I figures, only.
(5) As of 2010, Resolution counts have been updated to report only primary case resolutions. Secondary case resolutions have been excluded from all of the resolution counts reported.

 
 
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