Summary of Docket Activity
for the Year Ended August 31, 1998

  Civil and Criminal Cases          
        Totals  
*Averages

Per  Justice
             
Cases Pending September 1, 1997     10,809   135.1
             
Cases Added During the Year Ended August 31, 1998:          
             
  New cases filed   11,566   144.6  
  Other cases added   936   11.7  
             
    Total Cases Added During the Year   12,502   156.3
             
Cases Disposed During the Year:          
             
  Cases affirmed   5,715   71.4  
  Cases modified and/or reformed and affirmed   134   1.7  
  Cases affirmed in part and in part reversedand remanded   176   2.2  
  Cases affirmed in part and in part reversed and rendered   56   0.7  
  Cases reversed and remanded   775   9.7  
  Cases reversed and rendered   214   2.7  
  Cases otherwise disposed   1,980   24.8  
  Cases dismissed   2,587   32.3  
  Case consolidations or voids   99   1.2  
             
    Total Cases Disposed   11,736   146.7
             
Cases Pending August 31, 1998:     11,575   144.7
             
Opinions Written During the Year     11,457   143.2
*Averages based on 80 justices.

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