Venue · 92 district courts
Where cases end, and how
Every circle is one district court at its own courthouse seat. Its area is the case count; its fill is the class of the disposition share named above the map. Nothing here ranks a court, and nothing here times one.
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Producer instrument_courts via GET /instruments/courts/data.json on the console. Dispositions as of 2026-03-31; judge metadata as of 2026-06-15. Each share's denominator is that district's own case count, printed beside it. The three published shares do not sum to 100 — the remainder is a disposition class the producer does not name, so nothing here calls it “other”.
The map needs JavaScript to draw. The figures do not — every one of them is in the bytes below, from the same payload the map reads.
| District | Seat | Cases | Settled | Judgment | Dismissed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AK | Anchorage · 9th Cir. | 531 | 45.5% | 15.3% | 26.4% |
| ALM | Montgomery · 11th Cir. | 773 | 38.3% | 13.8% | 25.0% |
| ALN | Birmingham · 11th Cir. | 2,156 | 38.8% | 8.0% | 42.0% |
| ALS | Mobile · 11th Cir. | 972 | 52.4% | 14.2% | 18.5% |
| ARE | Little Rock · 8th Cir. | 1,287 | 60.8% | 22.2% | 5.4% |
| ARW | Fort Smith · 8th Cir. | 841 | 46.4% | 30.6% | 12.2% |
| AZ | Phoenix · 9th Cir. | 3,459 | 59.9% | 16.3% | 12.5% |
| CAC | Los Angeles · 9th Cir. | 18,213 | 52.9% | 9.2% | 16.5% |
| CAE | Sacramento · 9th Cir. | 3,389 | 54.6% | 11.4% | 8.4% |
| CAN | San Francisco · 9th Cir. | 6,767 | 57.2% | 14.7% | 11.6% |
| CAS | San Diego · 9th Cir. | 3,609 | 57.1% | 8.7% | 19.6% |
| CO | Denver · 10th Cir. | 7,389 | 72.4% | 9.7% | 8.2% |
| CT | New Haven · 2nd Cir. | 2,388 | 62.2% | 19.5% | 7.3% |
| DC | Washington · Cir. | 1,090 | 47.1% | 12.8% | 28.7% |
| DE | Wilmington · 3rd Cir. | 1,737 | 59.6% | 10.4% | 14.9% |
| FLM | Tampa · 11th Cir. | 11,081 | 60.9% | 7.9% | 15.0% |
| FLN | Tallahassee · 11th Cir. | 1,653 | 69.9% | 15.1% | 7.0% |
| FLS | Miami · 11th Cir. | 13,297 | 52.2% | 8.0% | 23.6% |
| GAM | Macon · 11th Cir. | 961 | 50.7% | 23.7% | 5.2% |
| GAN | Atlanta · 11th Cir. | 6,449 | 51.6% | 19.4% | 6.1% |
| GAS | Savannah · 11th Cir. | 834 | 47.5% | 16.0% | 13.0% |
| HI | Honolulu · 9th Cir. | 791 | 61.2% | 15.0% | 7.5% |
| IAN | Cedar Rapids · 8th Cir. | 495 | 66.7% | 19.8% | 1.5% |
| IAS | Des Moines · 8th Cir. | 645 | 65.5% | 7.1% | 3.7% |
| ID | Boise · 9th Cir. | 637 | 66.5% | 9.8% | 11.7% |
| ILC | Springfield · 7th Cir. | 740 | 54.0% | 17.5% | 14.3% |
| ILN | Chicago · 7th Cir. | 9,293 | 56.8% | 18.0% | 15.6% |
| ILS | East St. Louis · 7th Cir. | 719 | 50.3% | 14.4% | 11.1% |
| INN | South Bend · 7th Cir. | 1,846 | 71.9% | 13.1% | 8.5% |
| INS | Indianapolis · 7th Cir. | 1,940 | 54.1% | 14.5% | 18.5% |
| KS | Wichita · 10th Cir. | 1,564 | 61.0% | 15.1% | 14.9% |
| KYE | Lexington · 6th Cir. | 1,133 | 53.0% | 21.0% | 12.6% |
| KYW | Louisville · 6th Cir. | 1,488 | 59.4% | 14.2% | 14.3% |
| LAE | New Orleans · 5th Cir. | 11,748 | 78.6% | 5.7% | 4.0% |
| LAM | Baton Rouge · 5th Cir. | 3,968 | 59.4% | 1.9% | 27.2% |
| LAW | Shreveport · 5th Cir. | 10,017 | 82.0% | 3.8% | 8.3% |
| MA | Boston · 1st Cir. | 3,907 | 57.1% | 19.4% | 11.7% |
| MD | Baltimore · 4th Cir. | 4,005 | 52.5% | 17.4% | 20.8% |
| ME | Portland · 1st Cir. | 496 | 61.7% | 22.9% | 4.3% |
| MIE | Detroit · 6th Cir. | 4,641 | 59.4% | 18.0% | 11.5% |
| MIW | Grand Rapids · 6th Cir. | 1,198 | 60.0% | 13.6% | 14.7% |
| MN | Minneapolis · 8th Cir. | 2,879 | 66.4% | 15.7% | 8.3% |
| MOE | St. Louis · 8th Cir. | 2,614 | 53.7% | 11.2% | 16.5% |
| MOW | Kansas City · 8th Cir. | 2,284 | 57.3% | 16.0% | 11.8% |
| MSN | Oxford · 5th Cir. | 955 | 62.7% | 14.6% | 10.0% |
| MSS | Jackson · 5th Cir. | 2,701 | 53.9% | 11.5% | 18.2% |
| MT | Billings · 9th Cir. | 1,214 | 66.4% | 13.2% | 10.2% |
| NCE | Raleigh · 4th Cir. | 1,481 | 58.8% | 13.5% | 14.5% |
| NCM | Greensboro · 4th Cir. | 928 | 55.4% | 20.7% | 8.9% |
| NCW | Charlotte · 4th Cir. | 1,370 | 65.5% | 18.9% | 5.0% |
| ND | Bismarck · 8th Cir. | 486 | 65.0% | 21.9% | 3.5% |
| NE | Omaha · 8th Cir. | 952 | 65.3% | 20.4% | 6.0% |
| NH | Concord · 1st Cir. | 446 | 63.8% | 16.7% | 5.7% |
| NJ | Newark · 3rd Cir. | 9,830 | 64.3% | 14.9% | 12.2% |
| NM | Albuquerque · 10th Cir. | 1,775 | 69.9% | 11.3% | 4.8% |
| NV | Las Vegas · 9th Cir. | 3,808 | 46.7% | 8.2% | 23.5% |
| NYE | Brooklyn · 2nd Cir. | 5,208 | 54.8% | 17.8% | 14.6% |
| NYN | Syracuse · 2nd Cir. | 912 | 64.0% | 17.3% | 6.3% |
| NYS | Manhattan · 2nd Cir. | 12,664 | 60.3% | 13.9% | 14.1% |
| NYW | Buffalo · 2nd Cir. | 925 | 50.3% | 18.9% | 17.9% |
| OHN | Cleveland · 6th Cir. | 2,678 | 59.2% | 13.6% | 14.0% |
| OHS | Columbus · 6th Cir. | 2,560 | 54.0% | 14.0% | 17.0% |
| OKE | Muskogee · 10th Cir. | 559 | 41.8% | 15.7% | 6.5% |
| OKN | Tulsa · 10th Cir. | 1,304 | 58.1% | 13.5% | 15.9% |
| OKW | Oklahoma City · 10th Cir. | 2,821 | 61.0% | 10.0% | 8.9% |
| OR | Portland · 9th Cir. | 2,396 | 69.6% | 13.7% | 9.3% |
| PAE | Philadelphia · 3rd Cir. | 9,307 | 52.8% | 5.5% | 29.0% |
| PAM | Scranton · 3rd Cir. | 1,823 | 61.9% | 10.0% | 16.2% |
| PAW | Pittsburgh · 3rd Cir. | 2,809 | 50.6% | 11.2% | 10.2% |
| PR | San Juan · 1st Cir. | 917 | 45.8% | 20.5% | 16.2% |
| RI | Providence · 1st Cir. | 820 | 62.2% | 15.4% | 8.5% |
| SC | Columbia · 4th Cir. | 4,229 | 61.6% | 13.9% | 12.0% |
| SDD | Sioux Falls · 8th Cir. | 627 | 73.3% | 10.8% | 9.0% |
| TNE | Knoxville · 6th Cir. | 1,289 | 63.2% | 19.6% | 8.2% |
| TNM | Nashville · 6th Cir. | 1,614 | 23.2% | 4.7% | 62.8% |
| TNW | Memphis · 6th Cir. | 1,209 | 39.9% | 12.2% | 27.2% |
| TXE | Tyler · 5th Cir. | 3,368 | 43.5% | 3.9% | 33.9% |
| TXN | Dallas · 5th Cir. | 8,354 | 41.2% | 11.5% | 31.6% |
| TXS | Houston · 5th Cir. | 13,906 | 61.5% | 7.5% | 15.7% |
| TXW | San Antonio · 5th Cir. | 6,186 | 48.3% | 6.7% | 23.2% |
| UT | Salt Lake City · 10th Cir. | 2,216 | 56.5% | 12.9% | 17.7% |
| VAE | Alexandria · 4th Cir. | 3,605 | 51.4% | 12.1% | 25.1% |
| VAW | Roanoke · 4th Cir. | 792 | 63.2% | 16.0% | 12.7% |
| VI | Charlotte Amalie · 3rd Cir. | 312 | 28.1% | 5.8% | 44.6% |
| VT | Burlington · 2nd Cir. | 257 | 63.2% | 19.9% | 9.1% |
| WAE | Spokane · 9th Cir. | 731 | 59.2% | 16.2% | 17.2% |
| WAW | Seattle · 9th Cir. | 4,880 | 61.8% | 12.9% | 8.3% |
| WIE | Milwaukee · 7th Cir. | 1,148 | 51.8% | 14.8% | 13.5% |
| WIW | Madison · 7th Cir. | 615 | 59.4% | 19.4% | 9.9% |
| WVN | Clarksburg · 4th Cir. | 804 | 63.7% | 18.8% | 5.5% |
| WVS | Charleston · 4th Cir. | 1,140 | 58.4% | 11.9% | 18.1% |
| WY | Cheyenne · 10th Cir. | 523 | 55.9% | 23.1% | 9.8% |
What this map cannot say
There is no district polygon in this estate. Nothing under
litan/src or litan/data_local carries a federal district
boundary or a county→district crosswalk; the only district geography published
anywhere is the seat's own longitude and latitude, which is what every circle here
stands on. So this is a graduated-symbol map, not a choropleth — drawing 92
districts as filled territory would have meant inventing 24 states' worth of
internal borders. The circuit layer is the choropleth, because a circuit
is the union of whole states.
Two of the four figures the venue instrument was specified to carry do not
exist in this build. There is no KM band field on any district
(km_band / Kaplan-Meier: zero occurrences in the tree) and no
funding-disclosure flag. Neither is drawn, and neither is faked.
The withhold does not land where it promises. The venue composite is
withheld with the reason that “the tier it bands into is published in its
place” — and tier is null for all 92 districts. The
substitute the withhold names is itself absent. The rail says so per district.
Duration is withdrawn, not missing. Duration not published — withdrawn for selection bias.
One district has no judgeship count — it renders as the designed withhold in the rail rather than as a zero.