In 2005, the Court decided five civil cases which originated in Sacramento and two from El Dorado.  In 2006, the Court decided five Sacramento cases and one each from Shasta and Sierra.  The following year, five cases originated in Sacramento and one each came from San Joaquin, Shasta and Sutter.  In 2008, four cases came from Sacramento and one from San Joaquin.  In 2009, the Court decided three cases from Sacramento and one each came from San Joaquin and Yolo counties.

In 2010, the Court decided one case from Sacramento, one from San Joaquin and one from Yolo county.  From 2011 to 2013, the Court’s only Third District cases came from Sacramento – one case in 2011, two in 2012 and one in 2013.  In 2014, the Court decided one case from Sacramento and one from San Joaquin.

In 2015, the Court decided one case from Sacramento county.  In 2016, the Court decided one Sacramento and one from San Joaquin.  In 2017, the Court decided three cases from Sacramento.  The following year, the Court decided one case from Shasta county.  So far in 2019, the court has decided one case from Plumas county.

In Table 1077, we compare each county’s share of the civil caseload to that county’s share of the total population of the Third District.

Sacramento county is by far the biggest county in the Third District, with 36.99% of the total population.  Of the Court’s Third District civil cases, 72.12% have originated in Sacramento.  San Joaquin has 17.87% of the total population, but only 10.58% of the cases.  Placer county has 9.08% of the population, but the Court decided no Placer county civil cases between 1990 and 2019.  Butte county accounts for 5.74% of the population and 0.96% of the civil cases.  Yolo county accounts for 5.24% of the population and 3.85% of the civil caseloads.

Among the smallest counties in the Third, Alpine county has only 0.03% of the total population, and has not produced a civil case for the Supreme Court since 1990.  Sierra county has 0.08% of the population and has produced 0.96% of the civil cases.  Modoc county is 0.25% of the total population and produced no civil cases between 1990 and 2019.  Trinity county accounts for 0.36% of the population and 0.96% of the civil cases.  Mono county has 0.37% of the total population and produced no civil cases for the Supreme Court’s civil docket between 1990 and 2019.

Join us later this week as we move on to the Court’s Third District criminal cases.

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