TABLE 4.-CRIMINAL CASES: COMMENCED AND PENDING ON JUNE 30, 1967 AND JUNE 30, 1968,

TABLE 5.—TIME INTERVAL FROM ISSUE TO TRIAL OF CIVIL CASES IN WHICH A TRIAL WAS COMPLETED

1 Excludes land condemnation cases, habeas corpus cases, deportation reviews, and motions to vacate sentence. TABLE 6.-AGE OF CIVIL CASES PENDING AT THE END OF FISCAL YEARS

TABLE 7.-WEIGHTED CASELOAD PER JUDGESHIP FOR ALL U.S. DISTRICT COURTS AND FOR THE DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA 1

1 Based on civil and original criminal cases filed. The weighted caseload reflects the amount of court time used for types of civil or criminal cases divided by the proportions of total terminations. A description of the method used appears on pp. 156-161 in the Annual Report of the Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, 1964. The weighted caseload per judgeship refers only to the overall average per judgeship for each district as provided by 28 U.S.C. 133. Therefore, the number of judgeships does not include the services of senior judges or services of visiting judges. In computing the the weighted caseload for the United States, the District of Columbia, and territories are excluded.

2 Refers to the rank of the district court compared to all of the district courts for the year indicated. The lower the ranking the higher the average weighted caseload.

THE JUDICIAL BUSINESS OF THE U.S. DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE

The Western District of Tennessee has had two judgeships since 1961. The past four years, the district has carried a heavy civil caseload and a moderate criminal caseload. During 1968 it ranked 29th in the nation with a weighted caseload per judgeship of 286 compared with the national average of 265.

The incoming civil caseload in the district has exceeded 400 cases a year since 1964 and has fluctuated near 450 cases a year. In 1968 there were 432: civil cases filed, compared with 363 filed in 1963. The pending civil caseload has also increased by over 200 cases since 1959. There were 138 civil cases. pending at the end of 1959 and there were 370 pending at the end of 1968. However, there are very few three-year old civil cases in the pending caseload, and the median time interval from issue to trail in civil cases has been consistently below the national median. In 1968 it was six months compared with the national median of 12 months.

There has been no significant change in the incoming criminal caseload in the distirct since 1959. In the last four years there have been approximately 200 criminal cases filed per year. The pending criminal caseload was only 64 cases at the end of 1968.

TABLE 1.-U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee
Authorized Judgeships.-2.

Resident Judges.-Bailey Brown, Chief Judge, Robert M. McRae, Jr.
Place of Holding Court.—Memphis; Jackson; and Dyersburg.
District population, 1960 (actual) 1,088,331.

1 1960 actual. Years 1967, 1970, and 1975 are estimates published by the Bureau of the Census.

TABLE 2.-CIVIL AND CRIMINAL CASES COMMENCED, TERMINATED, AND PENDING