Federal Court — NE
District of Nebraska
Aggregate docket intelligence for the District of Nebraska 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
27,240
indexed in corpus
Judges Indexed
17
with docket data
Avg Criminal Fraction
7.0%
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 Kopf | 7,005 | 1,401 | 20.0% |
| Joseph Bataillon | 5,278 | 413 | 7.8% |
| Lyle Strom | 3,018 | 527 | 17.5% |
| John Gerrard | 2,204 | 89 | 4.0% |
| William Cambridge | 2,036 | 318 | 15.6% |
| Warren Urbom | 1,947 | 597 | 30.7% |
| Thomas Shanahan | 1,812 | 280 | 15.4% |
| Robert Rossiter | 1,180 | 32 | 2.7% |
| Brian Buescher | 1,040 | 9 | 0.9% |
| Susan Bazis | 502 | 5 | 1.0% |
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.