Maryland Court Statistics

While doing some other research, I happened upon the Maryland Judiciary’s Fiscal Year 2010 Annual Statistical Abstract (it covers July 2009 to June 2010). Whenever I see something law-related with statistics, I stop to take notice. I just have to look. There’s a lot of great data here. For example in the Circuit Courts:

107,814 new civil cases filed (5,698 of these (5.3%) were automobile accidents
2010 featured 16,768 more cases than 2009, which was itself 6,129 higher than 2008
The number of automobile accident cases filed in 2010 was down 50 cases from 2009 filings
The report divides automobile accident cases filed by jurisdiction: 174 (Howard); 91 (Anne Arundel); 966 (Baltimore County); 1,463 (Baltimore City); 531 (Montgomery County); and 1,096 (Prince George’s County)
We don’t know the number of automobile trials, but we do know the number of civil jury trials for each county: 43 (Howard); 420 (Anne Arundel); No data (Baltimore County); 148 (Baltimore City); 172 (Montgomery County); and 295 (Prince George’s County)

Compare that to the District Courts (civil cases up to $30,000):

Auto accident cases filed: 71,704 (Baltimore City); 133,240 (Prince George’s); 87,135 (Montgomery); 47,338 (Anne Arundel); 79,824 (Baltimore County)
Sadly, there is no data on auto case judge trials