This week, we’re looking at a new subject – updating our data on the Court of Appeal Districts and Divisions which produced the Supreme Court’s docket.  First up – the civil cases.

Between 1990 and 1994, the Court decided 45 civil cases from San Francisco’s First District – 1 which we were unable to attribute to a particular Division, 14 from Division 2, 8 from Divisions 1 and 4, and 7 from Divisions 3 and 5. 

The Court decided 77 civil cases from LA’s Second District.  Sixteen cases were from Division 7, 15 were from Division 1, 13 were from Division 3, 12 were from Division 6, 8 were from Division 5, 7 were from Division 4 and 6 were from Division 2.

The Court decided 52 cases from the San Diego area’s Fourth District – 19 from Division 1, 12 from Division 2 and 21 from Division 3.

The Court decided 16 cases from the Third Division, 15 from the Sixth Division and 11 cases from the Fifth Division.  The Court decided 10 cases which arrived on direct review.

The civil caseload from the First District increased between 1995 and 1999 to 60 cases – 15 from Division 4, 13 from Divisions 2 and 3, 10 from Division 1 and 9 from Division 5.

Cases from the Second District were up too, to 93 in all.  The Court decided 17 cases from Division 5, 14 cases from Divisions 1 and 7, 13 cases from Divisions 3 and 4, 12 cases from Division 2 and 10 from Division 6.

Cases from the Fourth District were down to 34.  The Court decided 14 cases from Division 1, 11 from Division 2 and 9 from Division 3.

The Court also decided 23 cases which arrived from the Third District, 11 from the Sixth District, 10 from the Fifth District, 11 on direct review and 1 which invoked the Court’s original jurisdiction.

Civil cases from the First District fell between 2000 and 2004 to 43.  The Court decided 11 civil cases from Divisions 1 and 2, 8 from Divisions 4 and 5, and 5 from Division 3.

Cases from the Second District were up slightly to 95: 20 from Division 3, 17 from Division 4, 16 from Division 1, 15 from Division 7, 13 from Division 5, 8 from Division 6, 5 from Division 2 and 1 from Division 8. 

Cases from the Fourth District were up to 50: 17 each from Divisions 1 and 3 and 16 from Division 2.

The Court decided 20 cases from the Third District, 11 from the Fifth District and 10 from the Sixth District.  The Court decided 11 cases on certified question review from the Ninth Circuit and one on original jurisdiction.

Join us back here later this weekend and we’ll review the data from the years 2005 to 2019.

Image courtesy of Flickr by Nicolas Raymond (no changes).