Right now, 33 cases are flagged as pulled from an argument calendar and not yet re-scheduled or otherwise resolved. Of these, 1 (3%) have since reached an opinion, 0 were resolved without one (dismissed, settled, or remanded), and 32 remain pending.

Of the removed cases whose controlling opinion we can classify, 1 were published and 0 were unpublished — so only about 100% of these rulings set citable precedent. That mirrors the Fourth Circuit's overall skew toward unpublished dispositions.

Looking across the full historical inventory of calendar-change notices we can link to a specific case (5 removal events), 1 (20%) ultimately reached an opinion, with a median wait of 208 days (roughly 7 months) between the notice and the filing. (Cases whose removal flag has since been cleared — for example because they were rescheduled or reappeared on a revised calendar — aren't counted in the active snapshot above.)

A 0% reappearance rate here doesn't mean removed cases never come back — the Fourth Circuit regularly reschedules a pulled case to a later sitting. When it does, we clear the case's removal flag, so rescheduled cases drop out of the linked-removed set above. This page therefore highlights the narrower path: cases that come off the calendar and are then resolved without a new argument date — typically on the briefs, by dismissal, or by settlement.

Calendar-change notice volume has risen sharply over time — 12 notices in 2020 versus 86 in 2025 (36 so far in 2026).