List of state intermediate appellate courts

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42 of the 50 states have an intermediate appellate court, and eight (Delaware, Maine, Montana, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming) do not.[citation needed]

Some of the states that do have intermediate appellate courts have more than one, such as Alabama, which has one intermediate appellate court for civil matters and another for criminal, and Pennsylvania, with a Superior Court and a Commonwealth Court which are both appellate courts but with different subject-matter jurisdictions.

Of the states with intermediate appellate courts, some have many divisions with varying degrees of independence from each other.

State intermediate appellate courts[edit]

Court Number of judges Established
Alabama Court of Civil Appeals 5 1969[1]
Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals 5 1969[1]
Alaska Court of Appeals 4 1980
Arizona Court of Appeals 22 1965[2]
Arkansas Court of Appeals 12 1978
California Courts of Appeal 105 1905
Colorado Court of Appeals 22 1891[3]
Connecticut Appellate Court 10 1982
Florida District Courts of Appeal 71 1957
Georgia Court of Appeals 12 1906
Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals 6 1979
Idaho Court of Appeals 4 1982
Illinois Appellate Court 54 1877
Indiana Court of Appeals 15 1891
Iowa Court of Appeals 9 1976[4]
Kansas Court of Appeals 12 1977
Kentucky Court of Appeals 14 1975[5]
Louisiana Circuit Courts of Appeal 54 1879[6]
Appellate Court of Maryland 13 1966
Massachusetts Appeals Court 25 1972
Michigan Court of Appeals 28 1963
Minnesota Court of Appeals 19 1983
Mississippi Court of Appeals 9 1995
Missouri Court of Appeals 32 1972[7]
Nebraska Court of Appeals 6 1991
Nevada Court of Appeals 3 2014
New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division 32 1947
New Mexico Court of Appeals 10 1965
New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division 60 1896
North Carolina Court of Appeals 15 1967
North Dakota Court of Appeals 3 1987
Ohio District Courts of Appeal 68 1912[8]
Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals 12 1970
Oregon Court of Appeals 13 1969[9]
Pennsylvania Superior Court 15 1895
Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court 9 1968
South Carolina Court of Appeals 9 1983
Tennessee Court of Appeals 12 1925
Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals 12 1925
Texas Court of Appeals 80 1891
Utah Court of Appeals 7 1987
Virginia Court of Appeals 17 1985
Washington Court of Appeals 22 1969[10]
West Virginia Intermediate Court of Appeals 3 2021
Wisconsin Courts of Appeal 16 1978

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Alabama Judicial Department (1991). "A History of the Alabama Judicial System" (PDF). Alabama Judicial Department.
  2. ^ "Court of Appeals". www.azcourts.gov.
  3. ^ The Colorado Court of Appeals was established in 1891, and subsequently abolished, re-formed several times thereafter.
  4. ^ Sackett, Rosemary Shaw; Doyle, Richard H. (2012-02-22). "History of the Iowa Court of Appeals" (PDF). Drake Law Review.
  5. ^ Before 1975, the Court of Appeals was Kentucky's highest court. See https://kycourts.gov/Courts/Court-of-Appeals/Pages/Court-of-Appeals-Clerk.aspx.
  6. ^ "History". www.la-fcca.org. Retrieved 2021-10-06.
  7. ^ "History of Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District". www.courts.mo.gov. Retrieved 2021-10-06.
  8. ^ The court of appeals was established in 1912 by constitutional amendment and divided into districts in 1968. See Ohio Const., Art. IV, Sec. 3.
  9. ^ Oregon Judicial Department. "Oregon Court of Appeals". www.courts.oregon.gov. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  10. ^ Washington State Court of Appeals (2019). "Celebrate 50". www.courts.wa.gov. Retrieved 2021-06-21.

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