Federal Court — VA
Eastern District of Virginia
Aggregate docket intelligence for the Eastern District of Virginia 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
145,820
indexed in corpus
Judges Indexed
42
with docket data
Avg Criminal Fraction
14.6%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jerome Friedman | 13,808 | 1,195 | 8.6% |
| Claude Hilton | 10,914 | 2,643 | 24.2% |
| Leonie Brinkema | 9,698 | 2,027 | 20.9% |
| Thomas Ellis | 8,372 | 2,228 | 26.6% |
| Robert Payne | 7,003 | 1,685 | 24.1% |
| Albert Bryan | 6,253 | 1,248 | 20.0% |
| James Spencer | 6,106 | 1,703 | 27.9% |
| James Cacheris | 6,075 | 2,173 | 35.8% |
| Rebecca Smith | 5,747 | 1,816 | 31.6% |
| Raymond Jackson | 5,709 | 1,665 | 29.2% |
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.