Task: songer_numresp

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals.
Intervenors who participated as parties at the courts of appeals should be counted as either appellants or respondents when it can be determined whose position they supported. For example, if there were two plaintiffs who lost in district court, appealed, and were joined by four intervenors who also asked the court of appeals to reverse the district court, the number of appellants should be coded as six.
In some cases there is some confusion over who should be listed as the appellant and who as the respondent. This confusion is primarily the result of the presence of multiple docket numbers consolidated into a single appeal that is disposed of by a single opinion. Most frequently, this occurs when there are cross appeals and/or when one litigant sued (or was sued by) multiple litigants that were originally filed in district court as separate actions. The coding rule followed in such cases should be to go strictly by the designation provided in the title of the case. The first person listed in the title as the appellant should be coded as the appellant even if they subsequently appeared in a second docket number as the respondent and regardless of who was characterized as the appellant in the opinion.
To clarify the coding conventions, consider the following hypothetical case in which the US Justice Department sues a labor union to strike down a racially discriminatory seniority system and the corporation (siding with the position of its union) simultaneously sues the government to get an injunction to block enforcement of the relevant civil rights law. From a district court decision that consolidated the two suits and declared the seniority system illegal but refused to impose financial penalties on the union, the corporation appeals and the government and union file cross appeals from the decision in the suit brought by the government. Assume the case was listed in the Federal Reporter as follows:
United States of America,
Plaintiff, Appellant
v
International Brotherhood of Widget Workers,AFL-CIO
Defendant, Appellee.
International Brotherhood of Widget Workers,AFL-CIO
Defendants, Cross-appellants
v
United States of America.
Widgets, Inc. & Susan Kuersten Sheehan, President & Chairman
of the Board
Plaintiff, Appellants,
v
United States of America,
Defendant, Appellee.
This case should be coded as follows:Appellant = United States, Respondents = International Brotherhood of Widget Workers Widgets, Inc., Total number of appellants = 1, Number of appellants that fall into the category "the federal government, its agencies, and officials" = 1, Total number of respondents = 3, Number of respondents that fall into the category "private business and its executives" = 2, Number of respondents that fall into the category "groups and associations" = 1.
Your specific task is to determine the total number of respondents in the case. If the total number cannot be determined (e.g., if the respondent is listed as "Smith, et. al." and the opinion does not specify who is included in the "et.al."), then answer 99.

BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judge.
This appeal must be dismissed because it presents no controversy. Appellant Bingham petitioned in the court below for a wage earner’s plan pursuant to Chapter XIII of the Bankruptcy Act. Previously he had filed a similar petition and had received a discharge within six years prior to the filing of the petition involved herein. The Bankruptcy Act provides that an adjudication operates as an application for a discharge and that the court shall grant the discharge unless, among other things, the bankrupt within the prior six years has been granted a discharge or had a wage earner’s plan by way of composition confirmed. Appellee Yingling Chevrolet Company, asserting that in the circumstances the second petition could not be maintained, moved to dismiss. The referee dismissed the proceedings and on petition for review the district court sustained that ruling. During the pendency of the petition for review, Bingham paid the Yingling claim in full.
In his notice of appeal Bingham designated only Yingling as appellee. None of his other creditors have appeared. One Porter, assuming to be a trustee in the Bingham wage earner proceedings, has filed an entry of appearance but he is an interloper as the statute provides only for the appointment of a trustee by the court after the acceptance of the plan. Here the proceedings were dismissed and no plan accepted.
As Yingling has received payment in full, it has no interest in the success or failure of the wage earner’s plan and no standing to contest that plan as an adversary. In order to invoke the exercise of our adjudicatory power, there must be a controversy involving adverse litigants. Moreover, the only basis of a controversy between Bingham and Yingling was the debt owed by the former to the latter. Payment ended that controversy and makes moot every issue tendered by this appeal. Reliance on Leader Clothing Company v. Fidelity and Casualty Company of New York, 10 Cir., 227 F.2d 574, is misplaced as there the amount of the judgment had been paid to the clerk of the trial court and repayment could have been enforced in the event of reversal. Here the payment was made voluntarily and was accepted. So far as we are advised neither Bingham nor any one else is trying to get the money back.
The appeal is dismissed.
. 11 U.S.C.A. § 1001 et seq.
. 11 U.S.C.A. § 32, sub. c(5).
. 11 U.S.C.A. § 1033(4).
. Poe v. Ullman, 367 U.S. 497, 502-505, 81 S.Ct. 1752, 6 L.Ed.2d 989; Public Service Commission of Utah v. Wycoff Company, Inc., 344 U.S. 237, 242, 73 S.Ct. 236, 97 L.Ed. 291; Aetna Life Insurance Co. of Hartford, Conn. v. Haworth, 300 U.S. 227, 239-241, 57 S.Ct. 461, 81 L.Ed. 617; Muskrat v. United States, 219 U.S. 346, 361, 31 S.Ct. 250, 55 L.Ed. 246.
. California v. San Pablo & Tulare Railroad Company, 149 U.S. 308, 314, 13 S.Ct. 876, 37 L.Ed. 747. Cf. Boggess v. Berry Corporation, 9 Cir., 233 F.2d 389, 390, 16 Alaska 256; United States v. International Union, etc., 88 U.S.App.D.C. 341, 190 F.2d 865, 872; and Cover v. Schwartz, 2 Cir., 133 F.2d 541, 546.

Question: What is the total number of respondents in the case? Answer with a number.
Answer:

Answer: 1