In Table 1342 below, we report the three-year floating average reversal rates for the Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Appellate Districts for the years 1992 to 1999.  The Second District fared best during these years.  The Third and Fourth were relatively equal, and the Fifth District fared worst.

The Second District had only one spike, to a reversal rate of 73.68% in 1995.  The Third District began at 76.19% in 1993 but was otherwise between half and two-thirds.  The Fourth District had a reversal rate of 73.08% in 1992 and 73.68% in 1997.  The Fifth District was at 80.95% in 1999, 80.65% in 1992, and in the seventies for 1993, 1996, 1997 and 1998. \

The years 2000 to 2009 were similar.  The Second District reached a high of 70% reversal in 2004.  The Third District was quite low throughout the decade – 28.57% in 2001, 25% in 2002, 33.33% in 2006 and 35.71% in 2007.  The Fourth District was just slightly higher, with its reversal rate in the forties and fifties each year.  The Fifth District remained the highest reversal rate in the state: 81.25% in 2001, 75% in 2002 and 2003, 70.59% in 2007 and 90.91% in 2009.

The Fourth District has fared quite well between 2010 and 2019.  The Second District was fairly high for the first five years of the decade and lower since; the Third District was the reverse.  The Second reached a reversal rate of 76.47% in 2014 before dropping to 30.77% in 2017 and 42.86% in 2018.  The Third District was in the fifties from 2011 to 2014 but reached 71.43% in 2016, 70% in 2017 and 2018 and two-thirds so far in 2019.  The Fourth District was very low throughout: 30% in 2012, 2016 and 2017, 50% in 2018 and only 44.44% in 2019.  The Fifth District reversal rate was very high for the first half of the decade, but has improved considerably since: 92.31% (2010); 85.71% (2011); 78.57% (2012); 81.82% (2013); 90.91% (2014) and 90% (2015), then 64.29% (2016); 58.33% (2017) and 37.5% (2018) and two-thirds so far this year.

In our final table, we report the overall reversal rate of each Division and District for the years 1990 to 2019.  The Divisions of the First District and the Second, Third and Fourth Districts have all been quite close: 54.22% for 1.1; 60.98% for 1.2; 60.75% for 1.3; 51.16% for 1.4; 58.82% for 1.5; 55.7% for 1.6; 54.37% for the 2nd, 57.26% for the Third and 54.82% for the Fourth.  The thirty-year civil reversal rate for the Fifth District is 73.3%.

Next week, we’ll review the data on the criminal side of the docket.

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