Texas Statewide Civil and Family Case Filings and Dispositions

By Don Philbin, www.CourtStatPack.com, September 20, 2018   
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Civil and family court filings in Texas have remained relatively stable during the seven full calendar year period since the Texas Office of Court Administration (OCA) started compiling data from district and county clerks in its current form: card.txcourts.gov/default.aspx. These graphs are captured from a website (www.CourtStatPack.com) we created to interactively display that data in easily customizable charts.

New civil and family filings are stable over the OCA reporting period.

The composition of the statewide docket is largely tax, debt, and civil related to criminal filings. Divorce actions with and without children are the leading family filings.

Motor vehicle and real property filings are up over the OCA period.

Judgments on jury verdicts have declined in both civil and family actions.

Sixty percent of judgments on jury verdicts are in motor vehicle and other injury cases. Family verdicts look a lot like the filings.

Bench trials continue to account for the majority of contested dispositions.

More than half of civil bench trials are tax and civil related to criminal actions.

The summary judgment grant rate has declined in civil and family cases, but that decline has recovered somewhat recently.

Nearly half of all summary judgment dispositions in civil cases are in debt (consumer) cases.

Directed verdicts are up but the small numbers magnify change.

For information on other Texas counties and statewide figures for 2017, see:

Specific reports can also be run for other combinations at courtstatpack.com/

 

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