American FactFinder - The US Census Bureau's portal for researching demographic, business, and other information. Useful for learning abouth the people and industries that may appear before the court.
The American Bench, ch. IV (right after the Alphabetical Names Index) shows Judicial Boundary Maps for the federal and state court systems. Federal district and state court boundaries are shown to county level. KF8700.A19 A54
Federal Courts
Federal Judicial Caseload Statistics (from Administrative Officce of the U.S. Courts) - open current report or archived reports to see list of detailed statistical tables showing caseload and other information broken down by district or circuit.
Judge Information Center (from TRACFED) - reports break down criminal and civil cases of every federal district court judge; based on the same docket docket information described in the "Individual federal trial court dockets" box on the Caseload/docket tab of this guide, but presented in tabular /graphical form, with combined case-type categories. Also offers limited data on FISA and Immigration Court judges.
State Courts
2014 Court Statistics Report (California) Supreme, appeals, and superior court trends 2003-2014, broken down by county, district and appellate division.
Additonal Research and Statistics from the Judicial Council and Administrative Office of the Courts (California)
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