In 2005, the Court decided four cases from San Diego, three from Riverside, two from San Bernardino and one from Orange county.  In 2006 and 2007, the Fourth District’s smallest counties, Imperial and Inyo, finally broke through with their first civil cases since our data begins in 1990.  In 2006, the Court decided four cases from San Bernardino, four from San Diego and two from Inyo county.  In 2007, the Court decided four San Diego cases, three from Orange and San Bernardino, and one each from Imperial county and Riverside.  In 2008, the Court decided eight cases from San Diego and one each from Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino.  In 2009, the Court decided five cases from San Diego, four from Orange county and two from Riverside.

In 2010, the Court decided three civil cases from Orange county and one from San Diego.  In 2011, the Court decided two cases from Orange, two from San Diego, and one from San Bernardino.  In 2012, there were three cases each from Orange and San Diego and one from Riverside.  In 2013, the Court decided one case each from Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego.  In 2014, the Court decided only one Fourth District civil case, which originated in Riverside county.

In 2015, the Court decided five cases from Orange county, three from San Diego, two from San Bernardino and one from Riverside county.  In 2016, the Court decided two cases from Riverside and one each from Orange and San Diego.  In 2017, the Court decided four San Diego cases, two each from Orange and San Bernardino and one each from Imperial county and Riverside.  In 2018, the Court decided four cases from San Diego, three from Orange county and two from Riverside.  To date this year, the Court has decided two cases from San Diego and one each from Riverside and San Bernardino.

In Table 1091, we contrast each county’s share of the total population of the Fourth District (using the 2010 census) to that county’s share of the Fourth District civil cases decided by the Supreme Court since 1990.

Imperial county is only 1.6% of the population of the District.  Inyo county is even smaller – 0.16% of the total population.  Each accounts for 0.81% of the civil caseload.  San Bernardino county has 19.13% of the District’s population and 14.57% of the civil cases.  Riverside county has 21.59% of the population and 14.98% of the civil cases.  Orange county accounts for 28.07% of the population and a nearly equal share of the cases – 30.77%.  Finally, San Diego county is the biggest county in the district at 29.45% of the population.  San Diego county produced 38.06% of the civil cases.

Join us back here next week as we turn our attention to the Fourth District’s criminal cases.

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