La. Supreme Court's 2005 Annual Report

The Supreme Court's 2005 Annual Report is posted on the Court's web site. If your practice includes applying to Louisiana appellate courts for writs, then you'll find some interesting statistics near the end of the report, showing, which will give you a general idea of the odds against getting a writ granted. For example, here are the Supreme Court's 2005 numbers:

All cases
Writ applications filed (excluding prisoner pro se): 1,520 Prisoner pro se writ applications: 866 Writs granted: 163

Civil cases
Writ applications filed (excluding prisoner pro se): 1,157
Prisoner pro se applications: 34
Writs granted: 73

Criminal cases
Writ applications filed (excluding prisoner pro se): 363
Prisoner pro se applications: 832
Writs granted: 90

The report contains similar statistics for each Court of Appeal.

Posted by RPW at August 1, 2006 01:34 PM