Finally, we reach the final part of this second series of our multi-part post on the geographic origins of the Court’s civil docket.
Santa Clara accounts for 72.45% of the population in the counties with cases on the civil docket in the 00s. Monterey was 16.88% and Santa Cruz was 10.67%.
Santa Clara had cases
With this post, we proceed to the Fifth District’s population and case distribution statistics.
Fresno is the biggest county, with 29.16% of the Fifth’s population. Following that are Kern County at 26.31%, Stanislaus at 16.12% and Tulare at 13.86%. Merced has 8.02% of the population, Kings County accounts for 4.79% and Tuolumne County is 1.74%.
For the years 2000 through 2009, San Diego was 29.41% of the Fourth District population. Orange County had 28.6%, Riverside County was 20.81% and San Bernardino was 19.34%. Imperial County was 1.66% and Inyo County was 0.18%.
San Diego had civil cases reach the Supreme Court every year, totaling 38 for the decade. Orange County
As shown in the Table, the population in the Third District is largely concentrated in two counties – Sacramento (51.38%) and San Joaquin (24.82%). Behind them, Yolo County is 7.27%, El Dorado is 6.56%, Shasta County is 6.42% and Sutter County is 6.42%. According to the 2010 census, Sierra County had 3,240 people – 0.12%
This time, we’re reviewing the data for the Second District.
Of course, Los Angeles County continued to dominate between 2000 and 2009, with 86.62% of the population among counties that produced Supreme Court cases. Ventura County was 7.26%, Santa Barbara was 3.74% and San Luis Obispo was 2.38%.
The case distribution was even more lopsided
We begin part 2 of our review of the geographic origin of the civil docket by reviewing the population distribution among First District counties which accounted for cases between 2000 and 2009. Alameda had 27.69% of the District population. Contra Costa County was 19.23%. San Francisco was 14.76% and San Mateo County was 13.17%. Sonoma
Like the Second District, the Sixth District is dominated by one county, Santa Clara. Santa Clara County accounts for 70.31% of the population. Monterey is 16.79%, Santa Cruz County is 10.68% and San Benito County accounts for 2.22% of the District.
Given this data, the caseload is not surprisingly almost entirely from Santa Clara County.
As of the end of the nineties, the population of the Fifth District was 2,092,011. Fresno County accounted for 38.21% of that, Kern County was 31.63% and Stanislaus County was 21.37%. Kings County had 6.19% of the population and Tuolumne accounted for 2.61%.
The Supreme Court reviewed relatively few cases from the Fifth District between
By a narrow margin of 44,000 people, Orange County is the largest county in the Fourth District, accounting for 32.011% of the District. San Diego accounts for 31.52%. San Bernardino County is 19.15% and Riverside County is 17.31%.
San Diego and Orange counties both contributed cases to the Supreme Court’s Fourth District caseload every year
Like the Second District, the Third District is dominated by a single County. Sacramento County accounts for 51.33% of the total population. San Joaquin County is another 23.65%. Butte is 8.52%, Yolo County is 7.08%, and the remaining counties are much smaller.
Nearly all of the Third District cases originate in Sacramento County. For the