Statistics for 2012
By justice →Opinions issued
321
Cases opened
784
Cases closed
702
Net change
+82
docket growing
Median days on appeal
271
filing to opinion
Median, submission to opinion
83
submitted to opinion
Dispositions
appeals decided by opinion in 2012
Affirmed
238
71.5%
Reversed
50
15%
Affirmed in part, reversed in part
24
7.2%
Opinion issued in a DA case, outcome unknown
9
2.7%
Petition for writ of supervisory control - other with opinion
4
1.2%
Opinion issued dismissing the appeal
2
0.6%
Opinion issued answering a certified question, outcome unknown
1
0.3%
Opinion issued answering a certified question, 'yes'
1
0.3%
Opinion issued dismissing a writ of supervisory control
1
0.3%
Dismissed - case settled in Mediation
1
0.3%
Opinion issued denying a writ of supervisory control
1
0.3%
Opinion issued in an election original proceeding
1
0.3%
Appeals by judicial district
where the case came from, and how it came out
Appealed fromOpinionsAffirmedReversedAffirmed in part
First
45
33 · 73.3%
7 · 15.6%
3 · 6.7%
Fourth
40
30 · 75%
4 · 10%
4 · 10%
Thirteenth
39
30 · 76.9%
5 · 12.8%
2 · 5.1%
Twentieth
21
14 · 66.7%
3 · 14.3%
2 · 9.5%
Eighth
20
16 · 80%
1 · 5%
2 · 10%
Eighteenth
19
18 · 94.7%
0 · 0%
0 · 0%
Eleventh
19
9 · 47.4%
7 · 36.8%
2 · 10.5%
Twenty-first
18
11 · 61.1%
3 · 16.7%
4 · 22.2%
Sixteenth
15
11 · 73.3%
3 · 20%
0 · 0%
Nineteenth
14
10 · 71.4%
1 · 7.1%
2 · 14.3%
Ninth
12
6 · 50%
4 · 33.3%
1 · 8.3%
Fifth
10
7 · 70%
3 · 30%
0 · 0%
Twelfth
9
6 · 66.7%
1 · 11.1%
2 · 22.2%
Third
6
5 · 83.3%
1 · 16.7%
0 · 0%
Fourteenth
6
4 · 66.7%
2 · 33.3%
0 · 0%
Second
6
4 · 66.7%
1 · 16.7%
0 · 0%
Twenty-second
6
6 · 100%
0 · 0%
0 · 0%
Seventh
5
2 · 40%
3 · 60%
0 · 0%
Tenth
4
3 · 75%
0 · 0%
0 · 0%
Sixth
4
3 · 75%
1 · 25%
0 · 0%
Seventeenth
4
4 · 100%
0 · 0%
0 · 0%
Workers Compensation Court
3
3 · 100%
0 · 0%
0 · 0%
Fifteenth
3
3 · 100%
0 · 0%
0 · 0%
U.S. District Court-Montana
2
0 · 0%
0 · 0%
0 · 0%
Subject and posture
how the year’s opinions divide
OpinionsFiling → opinionSubmitted → opinionFastest and slowest
Affirmed
Reversed
Other
Oral argument
28
398d
208d
188d — Am. Zurich Ins. v. 13th Judicial District
655d — Western Tradition v. Attorney General
Oral argument
24
385d
206d
188d — Am. Zurich Ins. v. 13th Judicial District
655d — Western Tradition v. Attorney General
Opinions issued in 2012
321 opinions
AU
majority
CO
concurrence
DI
dissent
filled wrote it · outlined joined it
Kluver, et al. v. PPL Mt, et al
2012 MT 321
DA 11-0681
· Dec 31, 2012 · Affirmed
MW
MG
BB
JR
BM
JN
PC
Big Sky Colony v. Doli
2012 MT 320
DA 11-0572
· Dec 31, 2012 · Reversed
BM
MG
MW
BB
JN
JR
PC
McEwen v. Mcr
2012 MT 319
DA 11-0722
· Dec 31, 2012 · Affirmed in part, reversed in part
BM
MG
BB
MW
JR
JN
PC
Marsden v. Bcbsmt
2012 MT 306
DA 12-0341
· Dec 28, 2012 · Affirmed
BM
MG
BB
MW
JR
Rebecca Mattson, et al. v. Montana Power Co., et al
2012 MT 318
DA 11-0413
· Dec 27, 2012 · Reversed
JN
MG
MW
PC
BM
BB
JR
State v. Stewart
2012 MT 317
DA 11-0254
· Dec 27, 2012 · Affirmed
JN
PC
MW
BB
JR
Sees the Ground v. State
2012 MT 315N
DA 12-0291
· Dec 27, 2012 · Affirmed
MW
MG
PC
BM
BB
State v. Leslie Jon Claassen
2012 MT 313
DA 12-0162
· Dec 27, 2012 · Affirmed
MW
MG
PC
BM
JR
State v. Kenneth Nixon
2012 MT 316
DA 11-0611
· Dec 27, 2012 · Affirmed
MW
BB
PC
BM
JR
Tonner v. Cirian
2012 MT 314
DA 12-0178
· Dec 27, 2012 · Reversed
BB
MG
MW
BM
JR
Labair v. Carey, et al
2012 MT 312
DA 11-0755
· Dec 27, 2012 · Reversed
PC
MG
MW
BM
JN
JR
BB
Jones v. Shaurette
2012 MT 310N
DA 12-0153
· Dec 27, 2012 · Affirmed in part, reversed in part
MG
BB
PC
MW
JR
Swapinski v. Hubbard
2012 MT 309N
DA 12-0259
· Dec 27, 2012 · Affirmed
MG
JR
MW
PC
BM
Marriage of Churchill
2012 MT 311N
DA 12-0177
· Dec 27, 2012 · Affirmed
Evans v. Dow
2012 MT 308N
DA 12-0110
· Dec 26, 2012 · Affirmed
JR
MG
MW
BB
BM