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Kirk Jenkins brings a wealth of experience to his appellate practice, which focuses on antitrust and constitutional law, as well as products liability, RICO, price fixing, information sharing among competitors and class certification. In addition to handling appeals, he also regularly works with trial teams to ensure that important issues are properly presented and preserved for appellate review.  Mr. Jenkins is a pioneer in the application of data analytics to appellate decision-making and writes two analytics blogs, the California Supreme Court Review and the Illinois Supreme Court Review, as well as regularly writing for various legal publications.

This week and next, we’re concluding our trip through the data for the counties of California’s six Court of Appeal districts with the civil and criminal cases from the Sixth District.  The Sixth encompasses only four counties: Santa Clara (by far the biggest), San Benito, Santa Cruz and Monterey.  Civil cases from the Sixth District

This time, we’re reviewing the most recent data for which trial courts accounted for the Supreme Court’s criminal cases from the Fifth District.

In 2005, the Court decided three cases from Kern county and one each from Fresno, Merced, Tulare and Tuolumne counties.  In 2006, the Court decided two cases from Kern and one from

This time, we’re reviewing the data on the trial courts which produced the Supreme Court’s criminal cases from the Fifth District.

In 1990, the Court decided only one Fifth District criminal case, which originated in Fresno county.  In 1991, the Court decided three cases from Tulare county and one each from Merced and Stanislaus county. 

For the past two weeks, we’ve been reviewing the data on which county Superior Courts originated the Supreme Court’s civil and criminal decisions from the Fourth District.  Next up: the Fifth District.

The Court decided no Fifth District civil cases in 1990.  In 1991, the Court decided one case each from Fresno and Kern counties. 

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