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Court Activity, Division III - 2012 Annual Report

  -------Appeals-------- -----Other Reviews-----  
  Criminal Civil Total Personal
Restraint
Discretionary
Review
Total All
Reviews
FILINGS
Total Filings  306  269  575  180  78  258  833 
RESOLUTIONS (4)
Opinions Published  39  51  90  93 
Opinions Unpublished  140  63  203  210 
Opinion Terminating Review  179  114  293  10  303 
Dismissed  179  179  179 
Transferred/Certified 
Review Not Accepted 
Other Terminations 
Order Terminating Review    190  193  198 
Decided on Merits  50  25  75  76 
Dismissed  38  81  119  16  25  144 
Review Not Accepted  10  47  47  57 
Other Terminations  11  20  24 
Ruling Terminating Review  101  123  224  11  66  77  301 
Total Resolved  280  242  522  205  75  280  802 
PENDING AT YEAR END (1)
Cases Stayed  20  29  16  23  52 
Brief Not Filed  135  101  236  47  52  288 
Appellant Brief Filed  66  27  93  98 
Respondent Brief Filed  89  65  154  31  36  190 
Remanded to Trial Court 
Set for Commissioners' Calendar  35  31  66  11  11  77 
Set for Oral Argument (2)  28  13  41  43 
Total Awaiting Hearing  376  248  624  99  31  130  754 
Opinion/Order in Process  49  24  73    75 
Total Pending Decision  425  272  697  101  31  132  829 
MANDATED
Opinion Terminating Review  181  118  299  16  315 
Order Terminating Review  209  213  217 
Ruling Terminating Review  106  140  246  82  91  337 
Other Decision Terminating Review (3) 
Total Mandated  289  262  551  227  95  322  873 

(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) 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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