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    Cases & Opinions

    The Supreme Court and Court of Appeals make their opinions available online as soon as they are filed. The courts also offer online case inquiry to allow public access to a register of actions for the cases brought before the appellate courts.

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    Appellate Opinions

    Supreme Court and Court of Appeals opinions are posted online as soon as they are filed, which is usually around 9:30 a.m. Friday, although they can be filed any day of the week.


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    Published Opinions

    A published opinion will be printed in a bound volume of the court’s official publication—the Kansas Reports for Supreme Court opinions and the Kansas Court of Appeals Reports for Court of Appeals opinions.

    A copy of a filed published opinion before it is printed is called a “slip opinion.” Slip opinions are posted online shortly after they are filed by the courts. Online slip opinions date to October 25, 1996.

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    Unpublished Opinions

    An unpublished opinion does not decide a new point of law, and it will not be published in a bound volume. You can find unpublished opinions online by the end of the day once they are filed by the courts. Unpublished opinions online date to September 4, 2015.

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    Oral Argument Archive

    Oral arguments before the Supreme Court are broadcast live over the internet and archived for on-demand viewing.

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    Appellate Cases

    You may search cases before the appellate courts from this website. There are other options for searching district court case information.

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    High-interest Cases

    Occasionally, cases pending before the appellate courts attract a lot of public and media interest. Information related to these high-interest cases is posted here for public and media access.

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    Case Statistics

    The Kansas judicial branch collects data about the roughly 400,000 court cases handled each year by district courts, the Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court. Case data are published in an annual report and cumulative data are published in a 10-year report that includes a section that ranks districts according to judge caseload.

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    1st Judicial District
    Atchison, Leavenworth

    2nd Judicial District
    Jackson, Jefferson, Pottawatomie, Wabaunsee

    3rd Judicial District
    Shawnee

    4th Judicial District
    Anderson, Coffey, Franklin, Osage

    5th Judicial District
    Chase, Lyon

    6th Judicial District
    Bourbon, Linn, Miami

    7th Judicial District
    Douglas

    8th Judicial District
    Dickinson, Geary, Marion, Morris

    9th Judicial District
    Harvey, McPherson

    10th Judicial District
    Johnson

    11th Judicial District
    Cherokee, Crawford, Labette

    12th Judicial District
    Cloud, Jewell, Lincoln, Mitchell, Republic, Washington

    13th Judicial District
    Butler, Elk, Greenwood

    14th Judicial District
    Chautauqua, Montgomery

    15th Judicial District
    Cheyenne, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace

    16th Judicial District
    Clark, Comanche, Ford, Gray, Kiowa, Meade

    17th Judicial District
    Decatur, Graham, Norton, Osborne, Phillips, Smith

    18th Judicial District
    Sedgwick

    19th Judicial District
    Cowley

    20th Judicial District
    Barton, Ellsworth, Rice, Russell, Stafford

    21th Judicial District
    Clay, Riley

    22th Judicial District
    Brown, Doniphan,
    Marshall, Nemaha

    23th Judicial District
    Ellis, Gove, Rooks, Trego

    24th Judicial District
    Edwards, Hodgeman, Lane, Ness, Pawnee, Rush

    25th Judicial District
    Finney, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny, Scott, Wichita

    26th Judicial District
    Grant, Haskell, Morton, Seward, Stanton, Stevens

    27th Judicial District
    Reno

    28th Judicial District
    Ottawa, Saline

    29th Judicial District
    Wyandotte

    30th Judicial District
    Barber, Harper, Kingman, Pratt, Sumner

    31st Judicial District
    Allen, Neosho, Wilson, Woodson

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