APPENDIX 5 (B)

SUMMARY OF DISPOSITIONS BY JURISDICTIONAL PREDICATE

(showing percentage of type of disposition within each category of jurisdictional predicate)

January 1, 1998 through December 31, 1998

CIVIL APPEALS

Type of Disposition
Jurisdictional Predicate:

Affirmance

Reversal

Modification

Dismissal

Other
Dissents in Appellate Division

38%
(5 of 13)

46%
(6 of 13)

8%
(1 of 13)

8%
(1 of 13)

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Permission of Court of Appeals

48%
(27 of 56)

41%
(23 of 56)

11%
(6 of 56)

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--
Permission of Appellate Division

50%
(10 of 20)

50%
(10 of 20)

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--

--
Constitutional Question

70%
(7 of 10)

30%
(3 of 10)

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--

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Stipulation for Judgment Absolute

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100%
(1 of 1)

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Other
(e.g. Judiciary Law § 44[7], Remand from U.S. Supreme Court)

4%
(1 of 24)

8%
(2 of 24)

4%
(1 of 24)

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84%*
(20 of 24)
 *Dispositions other than affirmance, reversal, etc., such as question certified by U.S. Court of Appeals (Rule 500.17); State Commission on Judicial Conduct matters.