2018 1,655 1,340 81.0 315 19.0 - 0.0 540

 2019 1,392 1,124 80.7 265 19.0 3 0.2 1,191

 2020 1,435 1,221 85.1 214 14.9 - 0.0 420

 2021 1,410 1,177 83.5 233 16.5 - 0.0 359

 2022 1,383 1,128 81.6 252 18.2 3 0.2 444

 2023 1,186 991 83.6 195 16.4 - 0.0 381

District Of Columbia

 2018 2,103 1,533 72.9 198 9.4 372 17.7 162

 2019 2,879 2,256 78.4 208 7.2 415 14.4 168

 2020 2,633 1,945 73.9 207 7.9 481 18.3 152

 2021 2,545 1,709 67.2 250 9.8 586 23.0 283

 2022 2,094 1,275 60.9 418 20.0 401 19.1 166

 2023 2,013 958 47.6 725 36.0 330 16.4 109

First Circuit

 2018 86,331 61,037 70.7 21,653 25.1 3,641 4.2 6,823

 2019 85,651 61,898 72.3 21,054 24.6 2,699 3.2 9,307

 2020 85,710 64,394 75.1 18,510 21.6 2,806 3.3 6,465

 2021 81,696 63,081 77.2 16,171 19.8 2,444 3.0 6,198

 2022 75,255 56,563 75.2 16,412 21.8 2,280 3.0 6,130

 2023 71,726 53,281 74.3 16,745 23.3 1,700 2.4 5,237

Case Participations1 in the U.S. Courts of Appeals 

On Cases Submitted On Briefs Or Orally Argued

During The 12-Month Periods Ending December 31, 2018 Through 2023

Total Case

Participations

Resident

Circuit Judges

Resident Senior

Circuit Judges

Visiting

Judges

Cases 

Disposed 

of by 

Consolidations 2

Circuit and Year Number Number Percent Number Percent Number Percent

Nation
 2018 6,708 4,129 61.6 1,969 29.4 610 9.1 542

 2019 6,842 3,946 57.7 2,452 35.8 444 6.5 867

 2020 7,060 4,339 61.5 2,503 35.5 218 3.1 640

 2021 6,729 3,965 58.9 2,526 37.5 238 3.5 527

 2022 5,553 3,349 60.3 2,132 38.4 72 1.3 446

 2023 5,614 3,416 60.8 2,096 37.3 102 1.8 561

Second Circuit

 2018 5,374 3,735 69.5 1,543 28.7 96 1.8 219

 2019 6,422 5,018 78.1 1,350 21.0 54 0.8 1,923

 2020 5,580 4,667 83.6 897 16.1 16 0.3 333

 2021 5,010 4,116 82.2 823 16.4 71 1.4 300

 2022 4,910 3,986 81.2 885 18.0 39 0.8 168

 2023 4,743 3,700 78.0 1,043 22.0- 0.0 321

Third Circuit

 2018 8,873 7,491 84.4 1,320 14.9 62 0.7 648

 2019 8,522 7,161 84.0 1,336 15.7 25 0.3 615

 2020 8,295 7,376 88.9 869 10.5 50 0.6 466

 2021 8,641 7,557 87.5 1,063 12.3 21 0.2 642

 2022 8,322 7,015 84.3 1,275 15.3 32 0.4 449

 2023 8,090 6,363 78.7 1,644 20.3 83 1.0 438

Fourth Circuit

 2018 11,127 8,333 74.9 2,780 25.0 14 0.1 1,631

 2019 10,649 8,355 78.5 2,282 21.4 12 0.1 1,489

 2020 9,944 7,954 80.0 1,978 19.9 12 0.1 1,584

 2021 10,506 8,576 81.6 1,907 18.2 23 0.2 1,420

 2022 11,243 9,218 82.0 2,024 18.01 0.0 1,619

 2023 10,004 8,123 81.2 1,841 18.4 40 0.4 1,441

Fifth Circuit
 2018 7,514 4,989 66.4 2,214 29.5 311 4.1 361

 2019 6,981 4,524 64.8 2,390 34.2 67 1.0 561

 2020 8,410 5,597 66.6 2,769 32.9 44 0.5 531

 2021 7,011 4,829 68.9 2,179 31.13 0.0 633

 2022 6,131 4,302 70.2 1,828 29.81 0.0 465

 2023 5,960 4,081 68.5 1,879 31.5- 0.0 463

Sixth Circuit

 2018 4,213 3,427 81.3 705 16.7 81 1.9 326

 2019 4,093 3,508 85.7 572 14.0 13 0.3 311

 2020 3,941 3,483 88.4 458 11.6- 0.0 396

 2021 3,951 3,563 90.2 388 9.8- 0.0 303

 2022 3,601 3,264 90.6 337 9.4- 0.0 260

 2023 3,398 2,698 79.4 700 20.6- 0.0 184

Seventh Circuit

 2018 6,488 5,493 84.7 951 14.7 44 0.7 338

 2019 6,500 5,500 84.6 986 15.2 14 0.2 365

 2020 7,041 6,215 88.3 803 11.4 23 0.3 337

 2021 6,895 6,368 92.4 524 7.63 0.0 470

 2022 5,814 5,505 94.7 294 5.1 15 0.3 806

 2023 5,990 5,693 95.0 294 4.93 0.1 363

Eighth Circuit

 2018 19,912 10,910 54.8 7,252 36.4 1,750 8.8 1,524

 2019 19,244 10,796 56.1 7,030 36.5 1,418 7.4 1,280

 2020 19,457 12,071 62.0 5,680 29.2 1,706 8.8 1,114

 2021 18,290 12,396 67.8 4,467 24.4 1,427 7.8 786

 2022 16,565 9,571 57.8 5,387 32.5 1,607 9.7 818

 2023 14,814 8,956 60.5 4,835 32.6 1,023 6.9 656

Ninth Circuit
 2018 3,578 2,788 77.9 790 22.1 - 0.0 48

 2019 3,560 2,839 79.7 721 20.3 - 0.0 60

 2020 3,460 2,873 83.0 587 17.0 - 0.0 63

 2021 3,371 2,588 76.8 783 23.2 - 0.0 54

 2022 2,982 2,339 78.4 643 21.6 - 0.0 75

 2023 3,363 2,702 80.3 661 19.7 - 0.0 81

Tenth Circuit

 2018 8,786 6,869 78.2 1,616 18.4 301 3.4 484

 2019 8,567 6,871 80.2 1,462 17.1 234 2.7 477

 2020 8,454 6,653 78.7 1,545 18.3 256 3.0 429

 2021 7,337 6,237 85.0 1,028 14.0 72 1.0 421

 2022 6,657 5,611 84.3 937 14.1 109 1.6 414

 2023 6,551 5,600 85.5 832 12.7 119 1.8 239

Eleventh Circuit

1 A case participation by an individual judge is defined as an appeal in which the judge hears oral arguments or the appeal is submitted on briefs. Thus, when a single appeal is 

heard before a panel of three judges, the number of case participations is three. This table does not include data for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

2 Beginning in December 2011, cases disposed of by consolidation and cross appeals are counted under procedural and merit terminations and shown as subset of 

merit terminations here.