D. Kan. Bankruptcy — Filing Statistics & Case Patterns

Empirical filing statistics for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Kansas: chapter distribution, monthly filing trends, and case volumes from publicly available PACER data via RECAP.

96,746 cases tracked · date range: 2010-07-15 to 2026-04-17

Chapter distribution

ChapterCasesShare
Ch. 758,58760.6%
Ch. 1337,27338.5%
Ch. 116230.6%
Ch. 122610.3%
Ch. 1520.0%

Filings by year

YearCases
20105,028
20119,903
20128,915
20138,263
20147,376
20156,705
20166,613
20176,588
20186,751
20196,760
20204,394
20213,447
20223,133
20233,559
20243,873
20254,199
20261,239

Filings by month (last 24)

MonthCases
2024-05363
2024-06358
2024-07376
2024-08369
2024-09357
2024-10335
2024-11288
2024-12269
2025-01240
2025-02250
2025-03352
2025-04407
2025-05358
2025-06378
2025-07420
2025-08377
2025-09402
2025-10391
2025-11349
2025-12275
2026-01283
2026-02279
2026-03447
2026-04230

Methodology & source

Cases compiled from the RECAP Archive via Free Law Project / CourtListener. Filing data updates incrementally as cases are added to PACER and mirrored to RECAP. Counts here may lag PACER by 1–14 days. For the source case index, see openbankruptcyproject.org/cases/.

Source dataset: /data.json · License: CC BY-SA 4.0