Most and Second Most Populous Jurisdictions in Each of the 11 Numbered Federal Circuits

For each of the federal circuits from the 1st to the 11th, list the most and second most populous jurisdictions (states or territories) in the circuit. Bonus question: What are the two circuits that have two jurisdictions that are among the 10 most populous in the U.S.?

UPDATE: I erroneously first asked just about one circuit with two jurisdictions among the 10 most populous; it appears there are two.

Comments

[Kleppe]

1st Circuit - Massachusetts
2nd Circuit - New York
3rd Circuit - Pennsylvania
4th Circuit - North Carolina
5th Circuit - Texas
6th Circuit - Ohio
7th Circuit - Illinois
8th Circuit - Missouri
9th Circuit - California
10th Circuit - Colorado
11th Circuit - Florida

The only circuit with two top-10 most populous jurisdictions is the 11th, with both Florida and Georgia. And although you didn't ask, I'll note that the D.C. Circuit is by far the least populated, having less residents than Alaska.

[Kleppe]

Either Prof Volokh edited the O.P., or my reading comprehension is worse than I thought

[DaivdBehar]

If these appellate judges are the best, why waste their abilities and experiences. The rules should change to allow the review of the facts of the case. The lower courts have high error rates. The appellate courts should have experienced investigators on staff to determine if things were missed by the lower court. Limiting their reviews to errors of law is another lawyer delusion.

[DaivdBehar]

One feature that unifies all them is their utter stupidity. Lawyers are the stupidest people in the country. Among lawyers, federal judges are the stupidest. Their stupidity is breathtaking and appalling. Nothing they do is right, nor has the slightest external validation. Their sole authority comes men with guns. They are the Mafia and little dictators. Their self dealt immunity fully justifies public self help as a remedy.

They believe, minds can be read, the future forecast. They believe standards of conduct should be set by a fictitious characters. They make shit up, and it reflects, their fleeting feelings, their biases, which side of the bad they woke up on, and whether they had a sandwich or are still hangry. They are ridiculous and super toxic people. Their cognitive fallacy meter is spinning at supersonic speed. Their rules are filled with fictitious doctrines, fallacies, and just plain garbage ideas. They get to impose their rent seeking, selfish little tyrannies. Then they are in utter failure in every single self stated goal of every subject. They do nothing to protect the public from massive criminality, family destruction, contract breaches. They must be crushed to save this country.

[bevis the lumberjack]

If you’re talking city population the Ninth and Fifth both have three of the top ten based on the 2020 census. LA, San Diego and San Jose for the 9th and Houston, San Antonio and Dallas for the 5th.

If you’re talking metro area population the 5th (Houston and DFW) and the 11th (Miami and Atlanta) and the 9th (LA and Phoenix) have two.

Overall since the population of the cities in the 5th is generally larger in in comparison you’d have to proclaim the 5th the multiple area population champion, although of course New York blows everyone away on behalf of the 2nd.

[Josh R]

What about the 6th with Ohio and Michigan?

[wolfasawolf]

The real challenge is to identify the most populous district courts in each circuit.

[RandomClerk]

(Pure speculation)

1. D. Mass
2. SDNY
3. DNJ
4. EDVA
5. SDTX
6. SDOH
7. N.D. Ill
8. D. Minn.
9. CD Cal
10. D. Colo.
11. MDFL

[David Nieporent]

EDNY is significantly bigger than SDNY.

[Mark Regan]

Isn't the District of New Jersey significantly more populous than either the District of Massachusetts or the Eastern District of New York?

Also, the Central District of California includes Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, and Riverside Counties -- and two or three others. Maybe that would put it top of the list?

[Mark Byron]

I think the sixth with Michigan and Ohio also has two top-10 states. Michigan has been falling in rank for so long, people forget it's still in the top ten, a million people clear of New Jersey as of the 2020 census. The 11th does have two, but the sixth should count as well.

[jdgalt1]

I'll give it a try:

1st circuit: MA, then ME.
2nd circuit: NY, then CT.
3rd circuit: PA, then NJ. Both of which are among the top ten states in the US.
4th circuit: VA, then MD.
5th circuit: TX, then LA.
6th circuit: OH, then MI.
7th circuit: IL, then IN.
8th circuit: MO, then MN.
9th circuit: CA, then WA.
10th circuit: CO, then OK.
11th circuit: FL, then GA. Also both top-ten states.

[Kleppe]

NJ ain't top ten

[Commenter_XY]

Only top 10 in mosquitos and property taxes.

[RandomClerk]

1. Massachusetts; Puerto Rico
2. New York; Connecticut
3. Pennsylvania; New Jersey
4. North Carolina; Virginia
5. Texas; Louisiana
6. Ohio; Michigan
7. Illinois; Indiana
8. Missouri; Minnesota
9. California; Washington
10. Colorado; Oklahoma
11. Florida; Georgia*

*The Eleventh Circuit has two jurisdictions in the top 10, but it also appears that the Sixth might as well (Ohio at number 6 and Michigan at number 10).

[RandomClerk]

Looks like some lists might have MI and NJ as alternates at numbers 10 and 11.

[Josh R]

MI has one more electoral vote than NJ in 2024 (two more in 2020).

[Eugene Volokh]

RandomClerk: I believe you're correct.

[Mr. Bumble]

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[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

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John Eastman?

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[Frank Drackman]

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Did you get to take a "Take Home Tests/Questions" for your Bar Exam? maybe submit answers by Smoke Signals?, by Mail (Probably knot, you obviously never played Chess) because you're 1,024 Native Amurican like Poke-a-Hontas Lizzie Warren? (No way you'd admit to being a run of the mill English/Scots-Irish Amurican, you know, they tend to be Klinger Bitters)
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[darkknight9]

I'm hoping this moniker has changed hands over the years between different people. Because if it hasn't... well Art, I liked you better a few years ago when you weren't such a one trick pony.

Where did the old Art go?

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

I respond to what this blog has become.

Monotonous, polemical, bigoted, stale horseshit can create a one-trick pony.

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[darkknight9]

I enjoyed your movie recommendation, and the tips about the esoteric oddities amongst the width and breadth of the sheer volume of old laws and rules regarding alcohol in this country. I can see your point when you agitate against something related to your current pet peeve with this place, or when you are angry at something else that relates to stuff talked about here in addition to other places. But, your one trick pony seems to be locked in an internecine struggle with a dead horse. If you're doing it to make a point to any one or some or all of the authors and/or posters here I think you've made your point abundantly clear.

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I want old Art back. The person who would jibe and jab at weak arguments about all kinds of different things. Not just his beefs with private universities, religions, clingers, or your personal beef with Eugene.

Cheers

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

It's not personal.

Just business.

[darkknight9]

Well said. 🙂

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

" I will admit, it is occasionally fun to see you pull the hair of the reactionaries, "

I need to work on my aim. I try to kick them in the balls.

[Commenter_XY]

Arthur, I agree with darknight9.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

That's because you agree with Blackman and Volokh.

Which makes your credibility -- and prospects in modern America's marketplace of ideas -- paltry.

[MatthewSlyfield]

"What's the only circuit that has two jurisdictions that are among the 10 most populous in the U.S.?"

That would almost have to be the ninth, which by itself has 1/5th of the US population (despite 12 geographically defined circuits.).

[Craig Johnston]

The 9th has California, which is on the top ten, but the other states are not populous. It seems like the 11th and either the 6th or the 3rd depending on which list of most populous states you use.

[Frank Drackman]

Wow, and I thought my Baseball trivia posts were inane.

Frank "WGAF??" Drackman