United States yearbook - 1982 (1)

State Courts 189
No. 321. S t a t e C o u r t s o f G e n e r a l J u r i s d i c t i o n — C a s e f l o w , N u m b e r o f C o u r t s , a n d
Judges: 1977
{For further detail regarding volume and flow of cases through the Stale Court Systems, refer to Parts I and If of the publication
cited below, which contain text and summary tables for all reported data, respectively)
STATE
Beginning
pending
(1.000)
Total
Civil
FILED (1,000)
Traffic
Disposed
(1.000)
Ending
pending
(1,000)
COURTS—
Criminal
Juvenile
Number
Geographical
location
Number
of
judges
Ala.................................... 59.6 99.5 64.6 24.1 (X) 10.6 97.1 62,0 1 38 112
Alaska »11.9 13.9 11.4 1.1 (X) 1.5 12.6 *12.5 1 4 20
Ariz... *69.3 94.3 68.6 13.2 (X) 12.4 86.9 *75.0 14 73
Ark 3 62.6 77.4 63.6 13.8 (X) (X) *68.2 365.6 2 37 56
Calif.. (NA) 713.9 548.9 57.2 (X) 107.8 588.0 (NA) 1 56 542
Colo.. 87.5 124.0 92.2 15.7 (X) 16.1 119.4 92.1 5 29 100
Conn.. 36.1 31.4 26.9 4.5 (X) (X) 29.6 38.0 1 9 45
Del— 12.1 10.5 6.4 4.1 (X) (X) 10.1 12.5 2 6 14
o .c ... 429.2 317.8 161.9 29.0 120.5 6.3 *315.5 *20.0 1 1 44
Fla..................................... (NA) 418.9 250.1 92.5 (X) 76.3 392.3 (NA) 1 20 289
Ga.... — .............. - ........ - "115.7 161.5 104.3 46.0 11.1 (X) "144.0 "133.2 1 A2 98
Hawaii................................ 26.9 31.0 20.9 2.0 .1 8.1 27.7 30.2 3 6 23
Idaho 37.0 276.0 45.5 29.4 193.3 7.7 273.0 40.0 2 7 94
II *464.4 3,524.5 635.7 519.3 2,343.6 25.7 3,369.0 *504.8 1 21 643
Ind.................................... 250.0 350.3 189.6 50.1 94.8 15.8 344.3 255.4 3 122 173
Iowa 7123.3 597.2 129.8 190.4 271.0 6.1 *589.3 *128.6 f B 322
Kans 22.3 185.7 58.0 19.8 107.9 (X) 166.6 41.4 1 29 210
Ky (NA) 79.7 66.0 13.7 (X) (X) (NA) (NA) 1 56 87
U - (NA) 369.4 133.4 236.0 ” 10.1 4.4 1 7 13
NA Not available. X Not applicable. 1Excludes juvenile data. 2 Excludes adoption, mental health, probate, or
juvenile traffic or dependency data from Maricopa County or juvenile traffic dafa from Pima County. 3 Excludes adoption,
guardianship, miscellaneous probate, or mental health data for the Chancery and Probate Court. «Excludes estate data.
"Excludes any cases (lied before July 1, 1970. 6Excludes estate, conservation violations, misdemeanors from Cook County,
ordinance violations, or traffic cases. ’ Excludes estate or juvenile data. 8Excludes guardianship and conservatorship, and
trusteeship data. ®Excludes sentence review cases. 10Excludes misdemeanors, ordinance violations, parking, accident, or
moving violations from the Recorder's Court of Detroit. “ Excludes ordinance violations, parking, accident, or moving violations
from the Recorder's Court of Detroit. 12No data were available from the District Court. "Data were available o n ly from
Washoe County, representing less than half of the entire State population. “ Excludes civil data from Seneca County or felony/
misdemeanor indictments outside New York City. "Excludes civil data from Seneca County. "Excludes wrongful death,
adoption, birth records, name change, or mental health (all civil) cases. ‘’ Excludes criminal extraordinary writs. "Excludes
adoption, mental health, and juvenile cases. "Excludes any civil or criminal data, or juvenile data from lay or lawyer
magistrates. “ Excludes data from lay or lawyer magistrates. “‘Compiled from 3,002 of the possible 3,048 reports.
**Excludes data from 10 counties participating in an experimental statistical information system. “ Excludes mental health or
juvenile data. M Juvenile cases were induced with the civil and criminal figures and could not be separated for inclusion in this
table. “ Excludes cases filed before 1974.
Source: National Center for State Courts, Williamsburg, Va., S ta te C o u rt C a s e lo a d S ta tis tic s , 1 9 7 7 A n n u a l R e p o rt.