Federal Court — GA
Northern District of Georgia
Aggregate docket intelligence for the Northern District of Georgia compiled from verified federal court records. Judge caseload counts, criminal docket fractions, and sentencing departure rates — never a prediction about a specific defendant.
Source: CourtListener × FJC IDB × USSC FY14-23 — generated May 5, 2026
District Aggregate
Total Dockets
192,868
indexed in corpus
Judges Indexed
44
with docket data
Avg Criminal Fraction
11.9%
across district judges
Booker Inflection
—
mean downward departure
Criminal fraction = criminal dockets ÷ total dockets per judge, averaged across the district. Booker inflection = mean downward-departure rate for judges in this district per USSC FY14-23. Aggregate frequencies only — not a prediction about any specific case.
Top Judges by Docket Volume
Judges ranked by total indexed docket count. Criminal fraction reflects the share of their docket classified as criminal (vs. civil).
| Judge | Total Dockets | Criminal Dockets | Criminal Fraction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Story | 13,218 | 1,577 | 11.9% |
| Thomas Thrash | 11,264 | 1,162 | 10.3% |
| Leigh May | 9,655 | 457 | 4.7% |
| Harold Murphy | 9,654 | 2,445 | 25.3% |
| Orinda Evans | 9,367 | 2,288 | 24.4% |
| Robert Vining | 7,699 | 1,715 | 22.3% |
| Charles Pannell | 7,603 | 1,626 | 21.4% |
| Timothy Batten | 7,254 | 1,022 | 14.1% |
| J. Forrester | 7,171 | 1,357 | 18.9% |
| Steve Jones | 6,868 | 773 | 11.3% |
Source: CourtListener × FJC IDB via mv_judge_docket_caseload. Counts reflect dockets indexed as of corpus build date.
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This is legal information, not legal advice. Aggregate data from verified public court records. Nothing here predicts a specific outcome.