Caseloads of the Courts of Washington

Court of Appeals
Court Activity, Division I (4) - 2023 Annual Report

  -------Appeals-------- -----Other Reviews-----  
  Criminal Civil Total Personal
Restraint
Discretionary
Review
Total All
Reviews
FILINGS
Total Filings  246  559  805  282  135  417  1,222 
RESOLUTIONS (5)
Opinions Published  29  50  79  10  13  92 
Opinions Unpublished  161  248  409  22  15  37  446 
Opinion Terminating Review  190  298  488  25  25  50  538 
Dismissed  207  208  209 
Transferred/Certified  10 
Review Not Accepted 
Other Terminations  26  27  30 
Order Terminating Review  242  244  250 
Decided on Merits 
Dismissed  30  189  219  32  38  70  289 
Review Not Accepted  13  79  79  92 
Other Terminations  16  19  18  21  40 
Ruling Terminating Review  40  217  257  35  137  172  429 
Total Resolved  232  519  751  302  164  466  1,217 
PENDING AT YEAR END (1)
Cases Stayed  16  17  12  13  30 
Brief Not Filed  207  315  522  63  28  91  613 
Appellant Brief Filed 
Respondent Brief Filed  28  46  74  25  29  103 
Remanded to Trial Court 
Set for Commissioners' Calendar  17  17  22 
Ruling Referred to Panel  10  10  10 
Set for Oral Argument (2)  37  68  105  14  18  123 
Total Awaiting Hearing  276  449  725  129  55  184  909 
Opinion/Order in Process  17  23  40  48 
Total Pending Decision  293  472  765  132  60  192  957 
MANDATED
Opinion Terminating Review  181  291  472  33  34  67  539 
Order Terminating Review  254  261  270 
Ruling Terminating Review  45  204  249  35  165  200  449 
Other Decision Terminating Review   
Total Mandated  234  500  734  322  206  528  1,262 

(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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