Federal Court — SC
District of South Carolina
Aggregate docket intelligence for the District of South Carolina 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
151,939
indexed in corpus
Judges Indexed
38
with docket data
Avg Criminal Fraction
11.7%
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 Gergel | 31,388 | 256 | 0.8% |
| David Norton | 13,001 | 1,984 | 15.3% |
| Joseph Anderson | 9,772 | 1,857 | 19.0% |
| Cameron Currie | 8,980 | 1,574 | 17.5% |
| Henry Herlong | 8,908 | 1,655 | 18.6% |
| Margaret Seymour | 7,252 | 1,369 | 18.9% |
| Patrick Duffy | 6,707 | 1,229 | 18.3% |
| Robert Harwell | 5,732 | 872 | 15.2% |
| Terry Wooten | 5,724 | 982 | 17.2% |
| Charles Houck | 5,401 | 907 | 16.8% |
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.