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

  -------Appeals-------- -----Other Reviews-----  
  Criminal Civil Total Personal
Restraint
Discretionary
Review
Total All
Reviews
FILINGS
Total Filings  463  458  921  336  154  490  1,411 
RESOLUTIONS (5)
Opinions Published  50  68  118  12  14  132 
Opinions Unpublished  287  91  378  11  389 
Opinion Terminating Review  337  159  496  16  25  521 
Dismissed  296  296  301 
Transferred/Certified  22  12  34  37 
Other Terminations  34  34  43 
Order Terminating Review  28  20  48  332  333  381 
Decided on Merits  15  43  58  61 
Dismissed  49  129  178  49  34  83  261 
Transferred/Certified 
Review Not Accepted  55  56  65 
Other Terminations 
Ruling Terminating Review  71  183  254  54  93  147  401 
Total Resolved  436  362  798  395  110  505  1,303 
PENDING AT YEAR END (1)
Cases Stayed  13  20 
Brief Not Filed  276  190  466  69  45  114  580 
Appellant Brief Filed  75  43  118  14  16  134 
Respondent Brief Filed  178  155  333  79  13  92  425 
Set for Commissioners' Calendar  14  22 
Ruling Referred to Panel  13  15  16 
Set for Oral Argument (2)  56  32  88  93 
Total Awaiting Hearing  609  438  1,047  171  72  243  1,290 
Opinion/Order in Process  66  38  104  113 
Total Pending Decision  675  476  1,151  175  77  252  1,403 
MANDATED
Opinion Terminating Review  350  148  498  10  16  26  524 
Order Terminating Review  41  24  65  268  269  334 
Ruling Terminating Review  65  178  243  53  99  152  395 
Other Decision Terminating Review (3)   
Total Mandated  456  350  806  331  117  448  1,254 

(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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