The Supreme Court Ohio Annual Report

2009 case statistics
time to disposition
Jurisdictional Appeals NOT Accepted for Full MERIT Review
From Filing of Notice of Appeal to Final Disposition
The decision whether to accept a jurisdictional appeal was made more rapidly in 2009. The
average time to consider acceptance decreased to 95 days from 101 days in 2008. Of the total
number of cases disposed of by the Court in 2009, 1,796 cases were jurisdictional appeals
not accepted for full consideration on the merits, a drop of 71 cases from 2008. The 1,796
jurisdictional appeals considered represented 76 percent of the cases filed in 2009.
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2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
2005 — 1,555 cases
96-day mean
99-day median
2006 — 1,568 cases
93-day mean
96-day median
2007 — 1,649 cases
100-day mean
100-day median
2008 — 1,868 cases
101-day mean
104-day median
2009 — 1,796 cases
95-day mean
96-day median
Original actions
In general, the median measurement is more reflective of the Court’s timelines with regard
to original actions because it is not subject to the skewing effect of outliers. The median reveals
that original actions, during 2009, were disposed of in 61 days. The average number of days for
original action consideration over the past five years is much higher, varying from 73 to 85 days.
In 2009, the average number of days to consider and dispose of an original action was 74 days,
the same number of days taken in 2008.
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2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
2005 — 175 cases
73-day mean
65-day median
2006 — 217 cases
73-day mean
58-day median
2007 — 194 cases
85-day mean
68-day median
2008 — 199 cases
74-day mean
68-day median
2009 — 203 cases
74-day mean
61-day median
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