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:
Manuel TALAVERA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Louie L. WAINWRIGHT, Secretary, Department of Offender Rehabilitation, State of Florida, Defendant-Appellee.
No. 76-3595
Summary Calendar.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
March 2, 1977.
Rehearing Denied April 6, 1977.
Anthony J. Golden, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, Fla., Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen. of Fla., Tallahassee, Fla., for defendant-appellee.
Before GODBOLD, HILL and FAY, Circuit Judges.
Rule 18, 5 Cir., see Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York et al., 5 Cir. 1970, 431 F.2d 409, Part I.
PER CURIAM:
On April 14, 1976, Manuel Talavera, a Florida state prisoner, filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Petitioner was convicted in the Circuit Court of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit and sentenced to a prison term of 120 years. His convictions were affirmed on direct appeal. Talavera v. State, 314 So.2d 22 (Fla.App.1975). The district court in an exhaustive opinion dismissed the petition. We vacate and remand the case for further proceedings.
Petitioner was convicted in state court of robbery and three (3) counts of false imprisonment. He contends that there was a total lack of competent evidence to sustain his convictions. However, a fingerprint found on the handcuffs used on two of the hostages was identified as that of the petitioner. Several witnesses testified that one of the robbers was wearing a grey suit. A forensic chemist found that the fibers in petitioner’s “cut-off” grey pants matched the fibers in a certain grey suit-jacket which was found in the vicinity where the getaway car was abandoned. Finally, while petitioner presented one Jerry Helms who testified that he and an unnamed accomplice had committed the robbery and not petitioner, Helms spoke with a Southern accent. The hostages testified that neither of the perpetrators had a Southern accent. Moreover, a government rebuttal witness testified that on the day that Helms had initially confessed to the crime, he had seen Helms and petitioner conversing for 30 to 45 minutes.
Matters concerning the sufficiency of the evidence are not cognizable on federal habeas corpus unless the record indicates that a state prisoner was denied due process of law. Colbroth v. Wainwright, 466 F.2d 1193, 1194 (5th Cir. 1972). However, the issue of the sufficiency of the evidence does not present a due process question where there is conflicting testimony supporting a state conviction. Jenkins v. Wainwright, 488 F.2d 136, 137 (5th Cir. 1973), cert. denied, 417 U.S. 917, 94 S.Ct. 2620, 41 L.Ed.2d 222 (1974). Since there is some evidence in this case against petitioner, there is no sufficiency of the evidence problem rising to constitutional proportions for habeas corpus relief. Dreske v. Holt, 536 F.2d 105 (5th Cir. 1976); Jackson v. State of Alabama, 534 F.2d 1136 (5th Cir. 1976).
Petitioner next challenges a search of his rental automobile as violative of his Fourth Amendment rights. In Stone v. Powell, 428 U.S. 465, 96 S.Ct. 3037, 49 L.Ed.2d 1067 (1976) the United States Supreme Court held “that where the State has provided an opportunity for full and fair litigation of a Fourth Amendment claim, the Constitution does not require that a state prisoner be granted federal habeas corpus relief on the ground that evidence obtained in an unconstitutional search or seizure was introduced at his trial.” Id. at 482, 96 S.Ct. at 3046. This decision of the Supreme Court was rendered subsequent to the time that the district court in the instant case considered the merits of petitioner’s claim. This case presents the question of the proper disposition of Fourth Amendment claims on the appellate level in light of this Supreme Court decision.
This court appears to have embarked upon two courses of conduct. In some cases we have undertaken on appeal to review the record to determine whether the state has provided an opportunity for full and fair litigation of the Fourth Amendment claim. See e. g. Stinson v. State of Alabama, 545 F.2d 485 (5th Cir. 1977); Flood v. State of Louisiana, 545 F.2d 460 (5th Cir. 1977); George v. Blackwell, 537 F.2d 833 (5th Cir. 1976). In other cases we have vacated the decision of the district court and remanded so that the trial court might determine this issue in the first instance. See e. g. White v. State of Alabama, 541 F.2d 1092 (5th Cir. 1976); Caver v. State of Alabama, 537 F.2d 1333 (5th Cir. 1976). The differing courses of action appear to depend upon the circumstances and state of the record in each case.
Thus, in the first line of cases the record appears to have been sufficiently clear so as to make the issue as to whether or not the state court had provided an opportunity for full and fair litigation of Fourth Amendment claims certain beyond peradventure. A remand under these circumstances would be a futile gesture and expensive in terms of judicial economy. In the second line of cases the record appears not to have been so clear. Under these circumstances, the appropriate appellate response is to remand the case to the district court in order to allow the parties “a chance to be heard upon the legal standard announced in Stone v. Powell.” Caver v. State of Alabama, supra at 1336.
In the case sub judice the district court apparently based its conclusions with regard to the petitioner’s Fourth Amendment claim upon a review of the trial transcript. However, there were two preliminary hearings which focused on the Fourth Amendment issue that were not before the district court. In addition, of course, petitioner did not address himself to the sufficiency of the state court proceedings in his habeas' petition. Under these circumstances we conclude that the case should be remanded so that the parties might address the question of opportunity for full and fair litigation of the Fourth Amendment claim before the district court, and that court may be afforded the opportunity of determining that question.
VACATED AND REMANDED.

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: 1