Filings

1/1/2003 - 12/31/2003

Filings	Filings	Percent Increase

Per Judge	2002-03

Direct Appeals	2,589	216	4%

Applications	855	72	9%

Interlocutory	453	34

Discretionary	402	38

Total	3,444	287	6%

Dispositions

1/1/2003 0 12/31/2003

Direct Appeals	2,601

Applications	903	Percent Granted

Interlocutory 420	32%

Discretionary	483	23%

Opinions

1/1/2003 - 12/31/2003 Direct Appeals

Total Opinions 1725

Ave. Opinions per Judge 144

372 or 22% were not published.

Orders

1/1/2003 - 12/31/2003 Direct Appeals

688

Oral Arguments

Number Requested	452

Number Granted	190

Percent Granted	42%

Motions for Reconsideration

Filed 563

Granted 12 (2%)

Case Types

Civil Cases which include commercial cases including banking, taxes, contracts, real property comprised about 53% of 2001 caseload. The largest proportion of these cases are contract and tort cases. Malpractice cases (legal, medical, and professional) were only about 2% of all filings in the Court of Appeals.

Criminal cases comprised about 40% of the cases. Controlled substance violations (about 8% of total) were filed more than twice as frequently as other crime types.

Comparison with other States

39 states had at least one intermediate appellate court in 2001. 2001 is the most current year of data available nationwide. Statewide filings range from Hawaii with the least, 225, to California with 23,382. Georgia ranked 8th in the number of filings per judge which at that time was 276. Georgia ranked seventh in the number of Opinions per Judge with 109.