For the past several weeks, we’ve been looking at the data on which trial courts produced the Supreme Court’s civil and criminal cases for each District of the Court of Appeal, year by year since 1990.  This week, we’re looking at the data for civil cases from the Fourth District.

The Fourth District is comprised of six counties – Imperial, Inyo, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego.  Although the total population of the Fourth is 11.3 million, nearly all of that is in the last four counties I named – Imperial and Inyo account for less than 2% of the total population of the District.  So we expect Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego counties to account for the vast majority of the civil and criminal cases from the Fourth District.

In 1990, the Court decided three civil cases from San Diego, one from Orange county and one from Riverside.  In 1991, the Court decided three cases from Orange county, three from San Diego and two each from Riverside and San Bernardino.  In 1992, the Court decided five civil cases each from Orange county and San Diego county.  In 1993, the Court decided six cases from Orange and San Diego, three from San Bernardino and one from Riverside.  In 1994, the Court decided five cases from Orange county, two each from Riverside and San Diego and one from San Bernardino.

In 1995, the Court decided two civil cases from Orange county and one each from Riverside and San Diego.  The following year, there were three San Diego cases and two from Orange.  In 1997, the Court decided three cases from San Diego, two from Riverside and one each from Orange county and San Bernardino.  In 1998, the Court decided four cases from San Diego, four from Riverside, two from Orange and one from San Bernardino.  In 1999, the Court decided three cases from San Diego and two from Orange county and San Bernardino county.

The Court decided two cases from San Diego in 2000, two from Riverside county and one from San Bernardino.  The following year, the Court decided eight cases from Orange county, four from San Diego, two from San Bernardino and one from Riverside.  In 2002, the Court decided three Orange county cases, three from San Bernardino and two each from Riverside and San Diego.  In 2003, there were three cases from San Bernardino, two from Orange and San Diego and one from Riverside county.  In 2004, the Court decided five cases from Orange county, five from San Diego and one from Riverside.

Join us back here next time as we review the data for the years 2005 through 2019.

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