Chief Judge Elrod, during a panel at the excellent Appellate Advocacy Seminar put on by the Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit today, announced that senior-status Judge E. Grady Jolly has now taken senior inactive status. This may be reflected in the recent opinion statistics, in which there have been no decisions in September … More Judge Jolly taking senior inactive status

At the end of each month, we tally various statistics from opinions released by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Then, corresponding to the traditional court term start date of October 1 (using the court term employed by the Supreme Court, though the Fifth Circuit itself compiles statistics on a July-to-June year), … More Annual statistics: October 2024 – September 2025

We report after each month on interesting statistics from the data we generate from the daily opinion summaries from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and at the end of each court year (Oct.-Sept.) we will aggregate that–all of which provides useful insights into the inner workings of the Court, the relative … More September 2025 opinion statistics