Appellate Caseloads in the Texas Courts of Appeals - Comparative Data from the 2014 Statistical Report

ANNUAL STATS ON ACTIVITY BY THE INTERMEDIATE COURTS OF APPEALS 

FISCAL YEAR 2014 (2013-2014) 

Due to space limitations, not all of the data collected and made available by the Office of Court Administration can be included in its annual report. Additional data can be accessed and downloaded on the agency's webpage, however. The table below was included in the most recent report and presents a comparative overview of cases filed and processed by each court of appeals.

The remainder of the blog provides info on where to find statistical information on opinion writing by individual justices on each court that reflects their respective productivity, and the amount of agreement and disagreement with their peers on the same court, as reflected in the incidence of concurring and dissenting opinions.

SOURCE: Annual Statistical Report for the Texas Judiciary for Fiscal Year 2014 

DRILL-DOWN AND GREATER DETAIL ON NUMBER AND TYPES OF OPINIONS AUTHORED BY INDIVIDUAL JUSTICES 

Opinion production stats broken down by court and individual members of each courts are also available from the Office of Court Administration (OCA), though not published in the Annual Statistical Report.

The more detailed information includes the following: 

• Courts of Appeals Districts - List of Counties 
• Courts of Appeals Districts Map  [which define the geographic scope of each court of appeals' jurisdiction and should not be confused with the Administrative Judicial Regions] 
• Justices of the Courts of Appeals
• Courts of Appeals Activity

• Activity Detail
• Opinion Summary
• Appeals by County

The last three data collections  - Activity Detail, Opinion Summary, and Appeals by County -- are in the form of downloadable spreadsheets.

Tables for each appellate court showing opinion authorship by justice (which are derived from the spreadsheet data files referenced above) can be found on the CoA-specific pages of this blawg (click hyperlink for each CoA in the masthead above).

Questions addressed by this blog post: How many cases do the Texas Courts of Appeals decide per year. Where can I find statistics on cases heard by the courts of appeals? How many cases are appealed in Texas? Where can I find information on the number of appellate cases decided by the intermediate courts of appeals in Texas? Statistics on the appellate court system in Texas.