Federal Court — MI
Eastern District of Michigan
Aggregate docket intelligence for the Eastern District of Michigan 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
255,762
indexed in corpus
Judges Indexed
57
with docket data
Avg Criminal Fraction
5.3%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denise Hood | 27,900 | 663 | 2.4% |
| Bernard Friedman | 12,757 | 1,311 | 10.3% |
| Avern Cohn | 12,559 | 1,183 | 9.4% |
| Nancy Edmunds | 11,061 | 901 | 8.2% |
| Gerald Rosen | 11,040 | 994 | 9.0% |
| Robert Cleland | 10,702 | 1,261 | 11.8% |
| Patrick Duggan | 9,690 | 972 | 10.0% |
| Paul Borman | 9,626 | 697 | 7.2% |
| Lawrence Zatkoff | 9,471 | 908 | 9.6% |
| George Steeh | 7,962 | 513 | 6.4% |
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.