Summary of Reported Activity
For the Years Ended August 31, 1988 through August 31, 1997

Supreme Court			1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997

Number of Justices			9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9

¹Regular Causes:
	Added to docket		123	141	158	154	171	176	190	133	152	120
	Disposed of		137	138	154	145	169	194	187	160	142	121
	Pending at end of year		57	60	64	81	83	66	67	41	52	57

Applications for Writs of Error:
	Filed		997	821	866	1,055	1,096	1,171	1,054	1,021	989	983
	Disposed of:
		Granted	110	76	84	130	145	167	125	132	150	104
		Other dispositions	841	705	792	921	1,009	1,076	968	865	861	832
	Pending at end of year		313	353	343	424	389	354	317	353	337	389

Other Writs and Motions:
	Filed		1,664	1,632	1,708	1,502	1,628	1,937	1,694	1,936	2,004	2,029
	Disposed of		1,643	1,312	1,555	1,462	1,540	2,004	2,017	1,917	2,028	1,980
	Pending at end of year		147	113	118	158	279	179	173	227	196	244

Opinions Written			203	174	187	211	233	295	229	246	183	179


Court of Criminal Appeals			1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997

Number of Judges			9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9

²Cases:
	Added to docket		924	437	203	176	201	243	202	245	318	422
	Disposed of		527	525	202	154	238	286	216	232	323	447
	Pending at end of year		761	237	224	246	209	138	124	137	132	107

Petitions for Discretionary Review:
	Filed		1,416	1,792	1,380	1,340	1,691	1,610	1,477	1,439	1,847	1,677
	Disposed of:
		Granted	301	246	202	210	199	165	148	112	211	111
		Refused or dismissed	1,134	1,861	1,150	1,177	1,327	1,491	1,523	1,340	1,568	1,533
	Pending at end of year		744	438	466	465	630	598	407	395	466	500

Writs of Habeas Corpus:
	Filed		2,897	2,985	2,078	2,013	2,550	2,627	3,396	3,996	4,445	5,444
	Disposed of		3,020	3,281	2,285	2,119	2,244	2,437	3,412	4,550	4,232	5,709
	Pending at end of year		747	525	318	212	518	708	692	597	1,019	1,151

Motions Considered			1,739	1,955	1,824	1,462	1,427	1,271	1,447	1,423	2,578	1,731

Opinions Written			1,007	1,133	561	592	642	679	468	526	749	747


Courts of Appeals			1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997

No. of Courts/Total No. of Justices			14/80	14/80	14/80	14/80	14/80	14/80	14/80	14/80	14/80	14/80

Civil Cases:
	Added to docket		3,780	4,008	4,114	4,064	4,913	4,213	4,380	4,462	4,748	4,805
	Disposed of		3,832	3,789	4,047	3,968	4,482	4,597	4,087	4,545	4,465	4,517
	Pending at end of year		2,235	2,459	2,545	2,640	3,076	2,663	2,987	2,781	3,097	3,405

Criminal Cases:
	Added to docket		4,224	4,508	4,214	4,749	6,125	5,542	5,210	5,635	6,391	6,718
	Disposed of		4,152	4,627	4,087	4,123	4,799	5,057	5,456	5,104	5,699	6,732
	Pending at end of year		3,481	3,704	3,847	4,485	5,827	6,353	6,140	6,657	7,373	7,404

Opinions Written			7,538	7,993	7,511	7,545	8,875	9,379	9,301	9,172	9,950	10,480


1	Generally, cases in which there is an oral argument and a written opinion.
2	Includes Direct Appeals and Granted Discretionary Review Cases.

District Courts			1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997

Number of Courts (Average)			375	375	384	386	386	386	386	386	396	396

Civil Cases:
	Added to docket		452,607	440,404	454,991	451,435	450,758	450,163	448,075	473,768	466,840	466,956
	Disposed of		438,214	449,335	448,360	454,010	463,518	452,103	438,727	442,008	470,210	477,217
	Pending at end of year		514,149	505,092	517,044	514,237	514,309	516,888	523,836	554,928	559,646	547,966

Criminal Cases:
	Added to docket		168,053	188,576	198,603	198,374	210,968	210,700	208,718	201,471	204,227	213,667
	Disposed of:
		Convictions	74,582	84,587	90,607	91,282	88,099	88,947	81,332	79,112	77,589	81,513
		Other dispositions	80,792	92,711	98,123	102,991	111,091	117,265	119,125	121,681	119,073	127,842
	Pending at end of year		117,800	129,263	140,226	144,220	156,285	161,041	168,467	169,063	177,236	182,391

Juvenile Cases:
	Added to docket		13,238	14,164	15,386	17,310	18,897	20,359	23,517	24,473	33,103	36,554
	Disposed of		13,787	13,073	14,553	16,426	18,422	19,907	21,627	24,451	29,763	34,656
	Pending at end of year		6,165	6,927	7,693	8,643	9,221	9,321	10,397	10,219	13,938	15,430


County-Level Courts			1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997

Number of Courts:
	Constitutional		254	254	254	254	254	254	254	254	254	254
	Statutory (average)		170	172	174	174	181	185	185	189	191	191

Civil Cases:
	Added to docket:
		Original cases	101,782	90,533	91,603	93,735	85,773	84,371	86,312	90,647	88,299	93,681
		Appeals from lower courts	2,808	3,037	3,122	3,326	3,153	2,915	2,853	3,435	3,753	3,266
	Disposed of:		100,870	101,802	90,495	96,066	90,635	92,654	87,820	87,704	93,856	104,167
	Pending at end of year		158,307	155,583	163,114	169,330	171,028	166,775	162,905	169,056	167,825	167,088

Criminal Cases:
	Added to docket:
		Original cases	351,327	362,199	387,353	399,016	449,472	448,874	458,973	498,068	441,828	444,271
		Appeals from lower courts	95,167	70,558	69,613	64,352	78,227	95,573	60,635	70,246	44,419	30,770
	Disposed of:
		Convictions	213,699	218,176	227,677	231,319	231,344	226,960	217,404	229,172	235,434	245,786
		Other dispositions	247,670	244,225	241,128	275,753	259,890	295,737	329,666	309,652	310,148	301,306
	Pending at end of year		480,360	472,509	485,120	478,285	515,250	535,552	547,070	566,680	571,914	562,994

Juvenile Cases:
	Added to docket		2,512	2,889	3,058	3,518	4,073	4,577	5,103	5,500	5,383	6,472
	Disposed of		2,539	2,651	3,033	3,284	3,548	4,342	4,754	5,272	5,837	6,736
	Pending at end of year		1,682	1,560	1,493	1,707	2,188	2,243	2,564	2,778	3,069	3,645

Probate Cases Filed			54,833	54,244	55,385	53,521	53,720	54,434	54,898	55,192	55,819	55,452

Probate Hearings Held			77,106	78,324	77,662	78,859	80,346	79,519	78,619	82,413	79,663	81,641

Mental Health Cases Filed			21,655	22,553	21,760	21,460	21,310	19,922	21,174	26,783	25,403	26,434

Mental Health Hearings Held			33,930	35,318	30,732	27,385	24,364	24,405	24,401	31,276	30,145	32,180