List of state intermediate appellate courts

42 of the 50 states have an intermediate appellate court, and eight (Delaware, Maine, Montana, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming) do not.

Some of the states that do have intermediate appellate courts have more than one, such as Alabama, which has one intermediate appellate court for civil matters and another for criminal, and Pennsylvania, with a Superior Court and a Commonwealth Court which are both appellate courts but with different subject-matter jurisdictions.

Of the states with intermediate appellate courts, some have many divisions with varying degrees of independence from each other.

State intermediate appellate courts CourtNumber of judgesEstablishedAlabama Court of Civil Appeals5 1969Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals5 1969Alaska Court of Appeals41980Arizona Court of Appeals221965Arkansas Court of Appeals121978California Courts of Appeal1051905Colorado Court of Appeals221891The Colorado Court of Appeals was established in 1891, and subsequently abolished, re-formed several times thereafter.Connecticut Appellate Court101982Florida District Courts of Appeal711957Georgia Court of Appeals121906Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals61979Idaho Court of Appeals41982Illinois Appellate Court541877Indiana Court of Appeals151891Iowa Court of Appeals91976Kansas Court of Appeals121977Kentucky Court of Appeals141975Before 1975, the Court of Appeals was Kentucky's highest court. See https://kycourts.gov/Courts/Court-of-Appeals/Pages/Court-of-Appeals-Clerk.aspx.Louisiana Circuit Courts of Appeal541879Maryland Appellate Court131966Massachusetts Appeals Court251972Michigan Court of Appeals281963Minnesota Court of Appeals191983Mississippi Court of Appeals91995Missouri Court of Appeals321972Nebraska Court of Appeals61991Nevada Court of Appeals32014New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division321947New Mexico Court of Appeals101965New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division601896North Carolina Court of Appeals151967North Dakota Court of Appeals31987Ohio District Courts of Appeal681912The court of appeals was established in 1912 by constitutional amendment and divided into districts in 1968. See Ohio Const., Art. IV, Sec. 3.Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals121970Oregon Court of Appeals131969Pennsylvania Superior Court151895Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court91968Puerto Rico Court of Appeals391992South Carolina Court of Appeals91983Tennessee Court of Appeals121925Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals121925Texas Court of Appeals801891Utah Court of Appeals71987Virginia Court of Appeals171985Washington Court of Appeals221969West Virginia Intermediate Court of Appeals32021Wisconsin Courts of Appeal161978

References

External links Alabama Court of Civil Appeals Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals Alaska Court of Appeals Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One website Arizona Court of Appeals, Division Two website Arkansas Court of Appeals California Courts of Appeal Colorado Court of Appeals Connecticut Appellate Court Georgia Court of Appeals Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals Idaho's judicial structure Illinois Appellate Court Indiana Court of Appeals Iowa Court of Appeals Kentucky Court of Appeals Louisiana Court of Appeals, First Circuit Louisiana Court of Appeals, Second Circuit Louisiana Court of Appeals, Third Circuit Louisiana Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit Louisiana Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit Maryland Court of Special Appeals Massachusetts Appeals Court Nevada Court of Appeals Superior Court of Pennsylvania