A report on the timeliness of state supreme courts. According to the Appellate Court Performance Standards, expedition is one of the three primary goals state appellate courts should try to achieve. The other values are fairness and consistency.

This document provides a brief description of selected appellate courts with civil jurisdiction including number of judges, jurisdiction over civil matters, appellate procedures, docketing practices, and mediation/settlement conferences.

This study analyzes the function of the appellate court staff in the appellate court system. The research addresses four different areas of study -- the lack of comparative study within this field, the nature of not adequately defining the varying roles within the appellate staff, the lack of comparison of the differing legal roles within the appellate staff, and the lack of investigation about what types of casework the legal staff pursues.

This report provides a comparative analysis of appellate courts including their organization, the steps that appeals follow in each court, the size and composition of the appellate bench, and the management of appellate courts.

This report finds that appellate courts with more resources are more likely to render decisions faster. Uses Pennsylvania as an example of a successful court, and explains how the state maximizes resources and efficiency.

This book investigates what accounts for the differences in appellate processing times among appellate courts. The author establishes eleven reasons to explain the differences in processing times.

This report examines appellate court case management practices.

This handbook for appellate court judges helps to develop an effective management information system.

This NCSC resource illustrates the historical trends of appellate court caseloads from the low caseload in the 1930s and 1940s to the very high caseloads of the 1970s and 1980s.

Table of filing fees for state intermediate appellate courts and courts of last resort.

This report studies the outcomes of first-level appeals courts by examining criminal appeals in five states.

This short report was created to assist appellate courts in streamlining the dependency appeals process. The pamphlet introduces guidelines such as assembling a task force, developing a plan, drafting a rule, and considering strategies for further improvement.

This book examines the effectiveness of expediting appeals for dependency cases in state courts.

This report focuses on the development of the court's workload and on the steps that the court has taken and will continue to take to meet workload and resource challenges.

This report aims to answer questions about state intermediate appellate courts, specifically those about caseload, procedure, and case processing.

Link to appellate decisions.

This report provides information concerning the use of short opinions in four state intermediate appellate courts. They are: New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division; Alabama Criminal Court of Appeal; Alabama Civil Court of Appeal; Pennsylvania Superior Court; Florida District Courts of Appeal.

These fifteen standards of performance pertain to four performance areas:  protecting the rule of law, promoting the rule of law, preserving the public trust, and using public resources efficiently.

This report provides information on performance standards for the states' appellate courts. Some of the topics included in this handbook are protecting the rule of law, promoting the rule of law, preserving the public trust, and using public resources efficiently.

This handbook is designed to benefit attorneys and pro se litigants.

The NCSC collected these data as part of the Civil Justice Survey of State Courts, 2001-2005, Supplemental Study of Civil Appeals with funding from BJS.  This study examined 1,204 tort, contract, or real property appeals from civil bench and jury trials held in 2001 in 46 large, ur­ban courts.

This report is a review of the Iowa Court's reorganization plan and an analysis of the workflow process. Iowa uses the "deflective system" in which all cases are initially filed in the Supreme Court followed by a decision regarding retention or transfer to the Court of Appeals. Proposed alternatives to improve efficiency involved the areas of review and decisions on motions, preparation of case statements and routing cases, workflow related to adjudicative functions, and organizational structure.

This memorandum explains the single justice court in Massachusetts, which is a method used to expedite the disposition of certain interlocutory rulings.

The primary objective of this workload study is to address the case backlog and identify possible methods for reducing it. The study's three critical objectives are: identifying bottlenecks in the processing of appellate cases, proposing methods to reduce backlog, and developing case complexity descriptions that will allow the Court to better track workload trends.

The purpose of this workload assessment model is to provide an objective uniform, and realistic methodology for judgeship needs and resource allocation for the Colorado Court of Appeals.