Statistics for 2010
By justice →Opinions issued
291
Cases opened
654
Cases closed
629
Net change
+25
docket growing
Median days on appeal
245
filing to opinion
Median, submission to opinion
63
submitted to opinion
Dispositions
appeals decided by opinion in 2010
Affirmed
226
73.6%
Reversed
54
17.6%
Affirmed in part, reversed in part
16
5.2%
Petition for writ of supervisory control - other with opinion
3
1%
Opinion issued in an original proceeding
3
1%
Not recorded
2
0.7%
Opinion issued dismissing the appeal
1
0.3%
Opinion issued in a Professional Regulation
1
0.3%
Opinion issued in an unknown original proceeding
1
0.3%
Appeals by judicial district
where the case came from, and how it came out
Appealed fromOpinionsAffirmedReversedAffirmed in part
Eighth
40
32 · 80%
7 · 17.5%
1 · 2.5%
Fourth
37
31 · 83.8%
3 · 8.1%
2 · 5.4%
First
32
22 · 68.8%
8 · 25%
1 · 3.1%
Eighteenth
30
23 · 76.7%
5 · 16.7%
1 · 3.3%
Thirteenth
28
18 · 64.3%
5 · 17.9%
5 · 17.9%
Twentieth
21
16 · 76.2%
3 · 14.3%
2 · 9.5%
Eleventh
18
12 · 66.7%
4 · 22.2%
2 · 11.1%
Twenty-first
17
16 · 94.1%
1 · 5.9%
0 · 0%
Nineteenth
10
9 · 90%
1 · 10%
0 · 0%
Third
9
6 · 66.7%
2 · 22.2%
1 · 11.1%
Second
8
6 · 75%
1 · 12.5%
1 · 12.5%
Twenty-second
8
7 · 87.5%
1 · 12.5%
0 · 0%
Fifth
7
5 · 71.4%
2 · 28.6%
0 · 0%
Tenth
7
4 · 57.1%
3 · 42.9%
0 · 0%
Sixth
6
6 · 100%
0 · 0%
0 · 0%
Twelfth
5
1 · 20%
4 · 80%
0 · 0%
Ninth
5
5 · 100%
0 · 0%
0 · 0%
Sixteenth
5
3 · 60%
2 · 40%
0 · 0%
Workers Compensation Court
3
2 · 66.7%
1 · 33.3%
0 · 0%
Seventh
2
1 · 50%
1 · 50%
0 · 0%
Fourteenth
1
1 · 100%
0 · 0%
0 · 0%
Subject and posture
how the year’s opinions divide
OpinionsFiling → opinionSubmitted → opinionFastest and slowest
Affirmed
Reversed
Other
All opinions
307
282d
81d
19d — Montana Consumer Finance v. State, et al
1231d — Commission on Unauthorized Practice
Five-justice panel
283
276d
77d
19d — Montana Consumer Finance v. State, et al
1231d — Commission on Unauthorized Practice
Oral argument
22
404d
186d
117d — Jerel Driver, et al. v. Sentence Review Division
657d — State v. David Gunderson
Civil
199
257d
79d
19d — Montana Consumer Finance v. State, et al
1231d — Commission on Unauthorized Practice
Five-justice panel
184
254d
75d
19d — Montana Consumer Finance v. State, et al
1231d — Commission on Unauthorized Practice
En banc
11
277d
109d
155d — Cooper v. Glaser
419d — BNSF Railway Co. v. State, ex rel., Dept. of Environmental Quality, Et Al
Oral argument
15
372d
191d
117d — Jerel Driver, et al. v. Sentence Review Division
539d — W. Security v. Bailly
Opinions issued in 2010
291 opinions
AU
majority
CO
concurrence
DI
dissent
filled wrote it · outlined joined it
W. Security v. Bailly
2010 MT 291
DA 09-0404
· Dec 30, 2010 · Affirmed in part, reversed in part
BM
MG
WL
PC
MW
JR
JN
BNSF v. Cringle
2010 MT 290
DA 10-0161
· Dec 30, 2010 · Reversed
BM
MG
WL
JN
JR
Shelly Weidow v. Uninsured Employers' Fund v. Bradley Howard
2010 MT 292
DA 10-0084
· Dec 30, 2010 · Affirmed
BM
PC
MW
JN
JR
State v. Robert Lambert
2010 MT 287
DA 10-0228
· Dec 30, 2010 · Affirmed
JR
JN
MW
PC
BM
Cozino v. Jones
2010 MT 289N
DA 10-0290
· Dec 30, 2010 · Affirmed
MG
BM
MW
JN
JR
State v. Timothy Johnson
2010 MT 288
DA 10-0194
· Dec 30, 2010 · Affirmed in part, reversed in part
MW
MG
JN
PC
BM
Marriage of Myrland
2010 MT 286
DA 09-0506
· Dec 30, 2010 · Affirmed in part, reversed in part
WL
BM
JR
PC
JN
Matter of Leroy Not Afraid
2010 MT 285
PR 09-0639
· Dec 30, 2010 · Unknown opinion
JR
WL
PC
MW
BM
JN
Ehrman v. Kaufman Vidal
2010 MT 284
DA 10-0174
· Dec 30, 2010 · Reversed
MW
MG
JN
WL
BM
JR
PC
Peggy Stevens v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals
2010 MT 282
DA 10-0029
· Dec 30, 2010 · Affirmed in part, reversed in part
WL
MG
JN
PC
MW
BM
JR
Keller v. Liberty Nw
2010 MT 279
DA 10-0125
· Dec 28, 2010 · Reversed
WL
MG
JR
PC
JN
Matter of Estate of Burrell
2010 MT 280
DA 10-0224
· Dec 28, 2010 · Reversed
MG
PC
MW
JN
JR
Foston v. State
2010 MT 281
DA 10-0272
· Dec 28, 2010 · Affirmed
BM
MG
MW
PC
JN
Colton Wilson v. State
2010 MT 278
DA 10-0237
· Dec 22, 2010 · Affirmed
BM
MG
PC
JR
JN
Matter of M.C.B
2010 MT 277N
DA 10-0274
· Dec 21, 2010 · Affirmed
MW
PC
BM
JR
JN