Stressed trial courts, stressed lawyers, rocket dockets and the like generate more appeals and should. New legislation, new causes of action, more educated citizens and more prosperity generate more appeals and should. Enhanced rights of criminal defendants generate more appeals. Other factors have also increased demands. Courts, like schools, have more burdens shifted upon them from eroding families, eroding churches, transitory communities, heterogeneous people, technology and urbanization.
More citizens are more confrontational.
Excellence in the administration of justice is difficult to achieve. Our responses since the 1960's have been several-fold but primarily in the realm of administrative changes. One response has been additional layers of courts. Another has been to add more law clerks and radically convert their functions. Another response has been to add central staff attorneys.