Civil case filings in San Francisco County Superior Court did not rebound from pandemic-era declines last year, according to the court’s most recent data.

In cases marked “civil filings” by the court, case filings hovered between a little more than 22,000 for fiscal years 2018 up to 2020. From 2020 to 2021, civil cases dropped to 18,915, then declined by at least a thousand case filings each year for the next two years. For fiscal year 2022 to 2023, civil case filings landed at 16,169.