This is part 2 in a series of posts reviewing the dockets at the Court of Appeal for the past thirty-plus years and their impact on the work of the Supreme Court. This time, we review the data for newly filed original writ proceedings.
We showed last time that Notices of Appeal declined between 1996
Today we’re beginning a series of posts examining the declining dockets at the Court of Appeal and assessing the impact on the Supreme Court’s work.
Below, we report the District-by-District new Notices of Appeal numbers (civil, criminal and juvenile) for the years 1996 through 2000. All data comes from the California Courts Court Statistics Reports,