Federal Court — SD
District of South Dakota
Aggregate docket intelligence for the District of South Dakota 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
15,759
indexed in corpus
Judges Indexed
15
with docket data
Avg Criminal Fraction
14.5%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lawrence Piersol | 3,397 | 840 | 24.7% |
| Karen Schreier | 2,992 | 275 | 9.2% |
| Charles Kornmann | 1,880 | 191 | 10.2% |
| Richard Battey | 1,582 | 434 | 27.4% |
| John Jones | 1,414 | 599 | 42.4% |
| Roberto Lange | 1,109 | 68 | 6.1% |
| Jeffrey Viken | 960 | 85 | 8.8% |
| Veronica Duffy | 938 | 0 | 0.0% |
| John Simko | 613 | 9 | 1.5% |
| Andrew Bogue | 468 | 25 | 5.3% |
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.