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
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