Appeals to Court as a Percentage of Appealable AC Dispositions

Longitudinal report detailing the numbers and percentages of new court cases filed during each of Fiscal Years 2010 – 2020 as compared to the total number of appealable Requests for Review (RR) dispositions issued during those same years. Court cases may be filed after an appealable decision on the RR is issued by the Appeals Council (AC). For this report, appealable AC RR dispositions only include denials of the request for review or partially favorable or unfavorable AC decisions. Fully favorable decisions by the AC are not included as they are very rarely appealed. Dismissals of the RR by the AC are also not included since they are not typically appealable to the courts.

Fiscal Year	New Court Cases Filed	Appealable AC RR Dispositions	Percentage
FY 2010	12,256	75,501	16.23%
FY 2011	14,236	94,476	15.07%
FY 2012	16,422	126,393	12.99%
FY 2013	18,779	137,381	13.67%
FY 2014	18,503	131,802	14.04%
FY 2015	18,399	123,682	14.88%
FY 2016 (52 Weeks) *	17,864	129,216	13.82%
FY 2016 (53 Weeks) *	18,239	133,024	13.71%
FY 2017	18,445	137,534	13.41%
FY 2018	18,252	130,396	14.00%
FY 2019	17,192	116,019	14.82%
FY 2020	19,454	157,446	12.36%
* For FY 2016, each of the individual reports have a listing for the normal 52 week fiscal year that ended on 9/23/2016 and a second listing to include the extra 53rd week covering the period from 9/24/2016 – 9/30/2016. Most fiscal years have just 52 weeks, however, FY 2016 had 53 weeks, which is an anomaly that occurs every five or six years.