Filings are declining at the federal level, including the immigration backlog.
United States Courts 23, Administrative Office for the U.S. Courts Report on Federal Caseloads for 2023 (Administrative Office for the U.S. Courts, 2023, “Federal Judicial Caseload Statistics 2023,” US Courts, https://www.uscourts.gov/statistics-reports/federal-judicial-caseload-statistics-2023#:~:text=In%20the%20U.S.%20district%20courts,criminal%20defendants%20fell%203%20percent.)
Civil case filings in the U.S. district courts dropped 8 percent (down 24,882 cases) to 284,220. This change occurred largely because of a reduction in multidistrict litigation (MDL) cases directly filed in a single district that alleged that the 3M Company sold its Combat Arms earplugs to the U.S. military without disclosing defects that reduced hearing protection. Filings of cases involving diversity of citizenship (i.e., disputes between citizens of different states and/or between U.S. citizens and citizens of foreign nations) fell 23 percent to 109,095.