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In many of these years they constituted a large proportion of all civil cases commenced. although they required on the average a relatively small proportion of court time per case for disposition. They are Included in the figure which they follow. TA3LE 2.-Eastern District of MichiganUnited States civil cases and criminal cases commenced and terminated. by fiscal year. and pending at the end of each year. beginning with 1941Continued United States civil Criminal easeseases cases (United States transferred are not a party)-price and Included in "Cornrent control cases menced" and "TerFiscal are in parentheses I minated" columns year Pend PendCorn- Termi- ing Corn- Termi- ing menced nated June menced noted June 1046 - --- 607(480) 745 299 4906 568 206 1947-... 563(388) 558 304 498 566 154 1948- 303(138) 404 203 676 615 229 1949 - 413(257) 370 246 990 887 334 150 .- 967(285) 1589 624 692 814 184 1951 --- 724(278) 858 490 715 651 239 1912 --- 810(452) 647 653 594 583 245 1053--....445(130) 690 408 667 705 224 15014- 367 430 345 581 625 197 1055- 496 401 440 613 556 268 TABLE 3.-Eastern District of MichiganCases commenced per judgeship Total Private Criminal Z civil civil cases (less cases cases imigration Fiscal 4 year .[001941 ----- 5 108 164 130 82 153 1942 ------ 5 1 9 168 141 77 107 161 1943 ----- 5 01 158 51 58 108 174 1944 ------ 5 92 169 39 56 124 184 1945 ----- 5 100 295 41 57 135 176 1946 ----- 5 177 321 55 70 91 142 1947 ------ 5 214 271 101 109 91 134 1948 ------ 5 152 205 91 117 125 123 1949 ------ 5 180 238 97 121 187 123 1950 ------ 5 294 222 101 113 129 116 1951 ----- 5 250 204 105 111 132 106 1952 ------ 5 274 236 112 126 111 112 1953 ------ 5 196 261 107 146 106 114 1954 ------ 6 163 210 102 127 88 103 1955 ------ 6 191 212 109 126 98 104 I Immigration cases have been eliminated from this table because they occur in volume in only 5 districts on the Mexican border and because the average judicial time per case for their disposition is small. 2 This column includes 86 districts for 1949 and thereafter. 84 districts before 1949. TABLE 4.-Eastern District of MichiganTime elapsing in civil cases tried I Fiscal year 1945 --------1940 ......... 1947 --------1948 --------1949 ...... 1950 .... 1951 ----1952 --------1953 ------1954 --------1955 .-----Number of cases tried Median interval in months from filing to disposition Michi- Nagals tional east- median 13.0 9.0 83 &9 10.4 0.0 8.8 9.9 10.3 10.4 11.7 11.2 10.8 12.2 14.2 12.1 15.3 12.4 16.9 13.5 19.2 14.6 Median interval in months from issue to trial Michi- Nagan. tional east- median ern 8.9 5.3 5.4 5.0 7.1 0.1 5.9 5.8 7.3 5.9 7.7 6.7 7.1 7.3 8.9 7.0 7.9 7.4 10.7 8.1 14.9 9.1 I The median time interval in months is computed for the civil cases in which a trial was held. which were terminated during the year. excluding land condemna. tion. habeas corpus. arid forfeiture proceedings. No median interval is shown for the years 1941 through 1952 where less than 25 cases were terminated after trial.