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.
Note that if an individual is listed by name, but their appearance in the case is as a government official, then they should be counted as a government rather than as a private person. For example, in the case "Billy Jones & Alfredo Ruiz v Joe Smith" where Smith is a state prisoner who brought a civil rights suit against two of the wardens in the prison (Jones & Ruiz), the following values should be coded: number of appellants that fall into the category "natural persons" =0 and number that fall into the category "state governments, their agencies, and officials" =2. A similar logic should be applied to businesses and associations. Officers of a company or association whose role in the case is as a representative of their company or association should be coded as being a business or association rather than as a natural person. However, employees of a business or a government who are suing their employer should be coded as natural persons. Likewise, employees who are charged with criminal conduct for action that was contrary to the company policies should be considered natural persons.
If the title of a case listed a corporation by name and then listed the names of two individuals that the opinion indicated were top officers of the same corporation as the appellants, then the number of appellants should be coded as three and all three were coded as a business (with the identical detailed code). Similar logic should be applied when government officials or officers of an association were listed by name.
Your specific task is to determine the total number of respondents in the case that fall into the category "state governments, their agencies, and officials". 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.

Opinion:
O’KEEFE v. BROWN et al.
No. 6597.
Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.
May 13, 1938.
Bourgeois & Coulomb, of Atlantic City, N. J. (Wm. B. Hunter, Jr., of Atlantic City, N. J., of counsel), for appellant.
Thompson & Hanstein, of Atlantic City, N. J., for appellees. '
Before BUFFINGTON and BIGGS, Circuit Judges, and DICKINSON, District Judge.
DICKINSON, District Judge.
A customer of the Atlantic City Bank applied for a letter of credit for. $2,500, paying the required sum. The bank, which did not issue letters of credit, applied in turn to Brown Brothers, who issued one to the customer. ' The transaction might have taken the form of a payment of the $2,500 to Brown Brothers. Instead, the bank retained the $2,500, agreeing with Brown Brothers to hold it in trust for them. Judge Avis, taking the view which might well be' taken and which can be plausibly supported, gave judgment for Brown Brothers, holding them to have a claim upon the funds in the trust department of the bank. Appellant relies upon the case of Edisto Nat. Bank of Orangeburg v. Bryant, 4 Cir., 72 F.2d 917.
The instant case has been discussed from the standpoint of whether a trust relation was created. We think a distinction should be drawn between a trust in fact and an agreement to create one. I-s a bank authorized to do a trust business, one person or two? We think it is two in the sense that when it acts as trustee it qua trustee is the custodian and guardian of the trust assets and the bank is a separate person with no title to them. In illustration, a bank may be authorized to act as executor. As such its identity is just as distinct as in the case of an individual. The individual who acts as executor is one person and although the same • individual when acting as executor "is another. The legislation authorizing banks to act in this dual capacity recognizes this distinction by requiring them as fiduciaries to do what is not required of them as banks. If these directory requirements are met the distinction we have noted is kept clear. In the instant case the dealing of the customer who desired the letter of credit was with the bank and in its capacity as such. The bank as a bank dealt with Brown Brothers. It might, as we have said, have paid over the $2,500 to Brown Brothers for which they would have issued their letter of credit to the customer of the bank. Instead of this, Brown Brothers issued their letter of credit relying upon the contract of the bank to pay Brown Brothers as the latter made advancements on the letter of credit. The transaction was so treated by the bank and not as a transaction with what is called the trust department of the bank. It is true that the bank further agreed to hold the $2,500 as moneys belonging to Brown Brothers. In this sense there was a trust, relation, but so there is between a bank and its depositors. It may or may not have been the duty of the bajik to have treated the transaction as one between Brown Brothers and the trust department of the bank. If such was the duty of the bank, it did not comply with it. This brings the transaction within the ruling of the court in the Bryant Case. There is in every debtor and creditor case a trust relationship in the sense that the creditor trusts the debtor to do what he has agreed to do. The relation here between Brown Brothers and the bank was the relation of creditor and debtor but in no other sense a trust relation.
The decree of the District Court is reversed, with directions to dismiss the bill, with costs to the defendant-appellant.

Question: What is the total number of respondents in the case that fall into the category "state governments, their agencies, and officials"? Answer with a number.

Choices:

Answer: 0