Ohio

Federal Court Management Statistics Available Online

By Cleveland Law Library

The U.S. Courts Library has posted 2007 Federal Court Management Statistics for all U.S. Courts of Appeal and District Courts. The data is available in chart or spreadsheet format. The appellate data provides overall caseload statistics and more detailed information on appeals filed, appeals terminated, actions per judge, actions per panel, and time frames for dispositions. Data is also available for each circuit individually, and the information for the Sixth Circuit shows that of the 4,818 cases that were filed in 2007, 2,517 involved prisoners or other criminal matters. The general and court-specific district court data itemizes overall caseload statistics, as well as filings per judge, disposition times, and civil and criminal filings by nature of suit and offense. Interestingly, although 5,386 cases were filed in 2007 in the Northern District of Ohio, 6,136 cases were terminated, and 5,772 cases still remained pending at the close of the year. Similar data is also available back to 1997.

Full post as published by Cleveland Law Library Weblog on February 13, 2008 (boomark / email).