The term companion cases refers to a group of two or more cases which are consolidated by an appellate court while on appeal and are decided together because they concern one or more common legal issues. Depending on the facts of each case, the court may be able to achieve a final resolution of all such cases (e.g., by affirming summary judgment in all of them), or it may have to remand one or more of them for further proceedings such as a trial. In general, one of the companion cases comes first on the case caption and serves as the title of the consolidated opinion that resolves the group of cases.