Turning finally to the Sixth District, according to the 2020 census, Santa Clara County was 73.17% of the population. Monterey County accounted for 16.59% of the population among the three counties contributing cases to the docket and Santa Cruz was 10.24%.
Santa Clara County had cases on the Supreme Court’s civil docket in seven of
With this post, we turn our attention to the Fifth District. Fresno (33.63%) and Kern counties (30.31%) comprise a large slice of the District’s population. Stanislaus County is 18.43%, Tulare is 15.77% and Tuolumne County is 1.85%.
Fifth District civil cases were relatively uncommon on the Court’s docket between 2010 and 2019. Fresno County had
The Fourth District is almost equally divided between three counties – San Diego (29.28%), Orange (28.29%) and Riverside (21.47%). San Bernardino County accounts for 19.37% of the population and Imperial County is 1.6%.
San Diego County had 24 cases for the decade, sending cases to the Supreme Court’s civil docket in nine of ten years.
According to the 2020 census, Sacramento County accounted for 52.94% of the population of the Third District. San Joaquin County was 26.02%. Yolo was 7.23%, Butte County was 7.07%, Shasta County had 6.08% and Plumas County was 0.66% of the District.
During the decade, Sacramento County produced 11 cases for the Supreme Court’s civil docket.
As we’ve discussed before, Los Angeles County accounts for nearly all of the population in the Second District. According to the 2020 census, the population of LA County was 10,014,009 – 86.41% of the Second District. Ventura County was 7.28%, Santa Barbara was 3.87% and San Luis Obispo accounted for 2.44%.
Nearly all of the
Alameda County remained the biggest county in the First District according to the 2020 census, accounting for 29.56% of the population in the First District. Contra Costa was next, with 20.49% of the District. San Francisco was third at 15.36% and San Mateo was right behind at 13.43%. Sonoma had 8.59%, Solano was 7.97% and