State appeals
Do appeals succeed?
When a case reaches a state's highest court, how often does the ruling below get reversed? It swings hard by state. The rate shown is each state supreme court's reversal rate among decided appeals; open a state for its intermediate courts too.
Appellate data, classifier-derived — descriptive, not a prediction about your appeal.
- Texas16 courts · 11,205 decided appeals84%supreme reversal
- Ohio1 court · 147 decided appeals74.8%supreme reversal
- Mississippi2 courts · 1,243 decided appeals60.2%supreme reversal
- West Virginia1 court · 4,124 decided appeals53%supreme reversal
- Virginia2 courts · 4,631 decided appeals47%supreme reversal
- Illinois2 courts · 27,822 decided appeals44.7%supreme reversal
- Florida2 courts · 8,431 decided appeals42.8%supreme reversal
- Utah1 court · 2,030 decided appeals42.1%supreme reversal
- Colorado2 courts · 1,110 decided appeals41.8%supreme reversal
- Missouri2 courts · 31,035 decided appeals41.1%supreme reversal
- Oklahoma2 courts · 9,839 decided appeals40.3%supreme reversal
- Alabama2 courts · 10,835 decided appeals40.1%supreme reversal
- Oregon3 courts · 11,311 decided appeals40.1%supreme reversal
- Arkansas2 courts · 8,570 decided appeals38.9%supreme reversal
- Michigan2 courts · 18,450 decided appeals38.9%supreme reversal
- North Dakota1 court · 3,035 decided appeals38.9%supreme reversal
- Idaho1 court · 1,987 decided appeals38%supreme reversal
- Wisconsin1 court · 7,793 decided appeals37.7%supreme reversal
- Montana1 court · 3,222 decided appeals36.7%supreme reversal
- Nevada1 court · 606 decided appeals36.6%supreme reversal
- Arizona1 court · 1,443 decided appeals36%supreme reversal
- Rhode Island1 court · 42 decided appeals35.7%supreme reversal
- New Mexico1 court · 1,342 decided appeals35.6%supreme reversal
- Nebraska1 court · 8,435 decided appeals35.2%supreme reversal
- Indiana2 courts · 10,909 decided appeals34.9%supreme reversal
- District of Columbia1 court · 689 decided appeals34%supreme reversal
- South Dakota1 court · 4,505 decided appeals33.9%supreme reversal
- Kansas2 courts · 10,265 decided appeals33.5%supreme reversal
- South Carolina2 courts · 5,473 decided appeals33.4%supreme reversal
- Iowa1 court · 13,567 decided appeals32.8%supreme reversal
- Washington1 court · 11,873 decided appeals32.5%supreme reversal
- Maryland1 court · 245 decided appeals31.8%supreme reversal
- Louisiana2 courts · 8,661 decided appeals30.2%supreme reversal
- California2 courts · 1,719 decided appeals30%supreme reversal
- Wyoming1 court · 59 decided appeals28.8%supreme reversal
- Minnesota2 courts · 10,830 decided appeals27%supreme reversal
- New Jersey1 court · 50 decided appeals26%supreme reversal
- Pennsylvania2 courts · 23,367 decided appeals23.7%supreme reversal
- Georgia2 courts · 3,999 decided appeals23.4%supreme reversal
- Maine1 court · 91 decided appeals23.1%supreme reversal
- New York4 courts · 5,837 decided appeals21.2%supreme reversal
- Hawaii1 court · 36 decided appeals19.4%supreme reversal
- Kentucky2 courts · 4,302 decided appeals18.3%supreme reversal
- Connecticut2 courts · 2,020 decided appeals7%supreme reversal
- Delaware1 court · 15 decided appealssmall sample
- North Carolina1 court · 17 decided appealssmall sample
- Tennessee1 court · 3 decided appealssmall sample
- Vermont1 court · 28 decided appealssmall sample