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 appellants in the case that fall into the category "natural persons". If the total number cannot be determined (e.g., if the appellant is listed as "Smith, et. al." and the opinion does not specify who is included in the "et.al."), then answer 99.

Opinion:
NAKUTIN v. UNITED STATES.
(Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.
May 21, 1925.
Rehearing Denied September 28, 1925.)
No. 3545.
1. Criminal law <@=3371(2) — Evidence of finding other stolen property in accused’s place of business than that involved in prosecution held admissible.
In prosecution for possession of stolen property, part of interstate shipment, testimony of witness that he had sworn out and signed search warrant, and went with officers to accused’s place of business in search of stolen property, which was not part of interstate shipment, and that such property was found, together with property which was part of interstate shipment, helé admissible, in exception to rule against proof of extraneous offenses.
2. Receiving stolen goods <@=38(3)— Evidence held sufficient to show that property found in accused’s place of business was stolen from interstate shipment.
In prosecution for having possession of stolen property, part of interstate shipment, evidence showing consignment of hosiery of same make as found in accused’s place of business, when delivered, was one case short, and which identified case in defendant’s possession as part of shipment, helé sufficient to show property was stolen.
3. Receiving stolen goods <@=38(4) — Evidence held sufficient to show knowledge on part of accused that property was stolen.
In prosecution for possession of stolen property, part of interstate shipment, evidence of contradictory statements by accused as to where he got property, attempts at concealment’, and sale price helé sufficient to show knowledge that it was stolen.
In Error to, the District Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois.
Ralph Nakutin, alias Ralph Natkin, was convicted of having possession of property, part of interstate shipment, knowing it to have been stolen, and he brings error.
Affirmed.
Jacob Levy, of Chicago, 111., for plaintiff in error. ■
Edward J. Hess, of Chicago, 111., for the United States.
Before ALSCIIULER, EVANS, and PAGE, Circuit Judges.
PAGE, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff in error (called defendant) was convicted of having possession of “Onyx” and “Concordia” hosiery, parts of two interstate shipments, knowing it to have been stolen. The “Onyx” and “Concordia” hosiery was found in defendant’s place of business by police officers and others looking, under a search warrant, for “As You Like It” hosiery, which was no part of an interstate shipment, nor was it in any way related to the hosiery in question here.
A witness, present when the search was made, was, over objection, permitted by the court to testify that he was manager for Beatum & Co., whose place had been robbed, that he had sworn out and signed the search warrant, and that he and the officers went to defendant’s place of business in search of, and found, “As You Like It” hosiery which had been stolen. There was no error in the admission of that evidence. Walsh v. United States, 174 F. 615, 98 C. C. A. 461; Bottomley v. United States, 3 Fed. Cas. 968, No. 1,688; Lincoln v. Claflin, 7 Wall. 132, 138, 19 L. Ed. 106; King v. Wylie, 4 Bosanquet & P. 91, 92; Irving et al. v. Motly, 7 Bingham, 543, 548; Sapir v. United States, 174 F. 219, 221, 98 C. C. A. 227; N. Y. Mutual Life Ins. Co. v. Armstrong, 117 U. S. 591, 599, 6 S. Ct. 877, 29 L. Ed. 997; Castle v. Bullard, 64 U. S. (23 How.) 172, 187, 16 L. Ed. 424. It should be noted that the cases state an exception to the general rule that evidence of other transactions is not admissible.
The only other objection urged is that there was no evidence to show that the hosiery was stolen, or that defendant knew it was stolen. The evidence showed a shipment of “Concordia” hosiery from Philadelphia to Bullocks, Incorporated, a department store in Los Angeles, Cal., on June 27,1924, and that on their arrival, July 13, 1924, one ease was missing. Part of that shipment was positively identified in defendant’s possession on July 10th, three days before the car carrying the shipment arrived in Los Angeles.
As to defendant’s knowledge that the hosiery was stolen, there was evidence before the jury showing contradictory statements by defendant as to where he got the hosiery, and of attempts at concealment of parts of the hosiery; that he bought it for one-half the wholesale price, and sold it at retail for a price that yielded him a good profit, and yet that was far below the wholesale price; that, he had large quantities of new goods in the original packages from three different, but recent, thefts. Prom this and other evidence there was clearly a question for the jury.
The judgment is affirmed.

Question: What is the total number of appellants in the case that fall into the category "natural persons"? Answer with a number.

Choices:

Answer: 1