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About U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California coverage
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Number of distinct stories where U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California was a primary or referenced actor.
Recency clustering
Whether mentions are concentrated in a recent window (a news cycle) or distributed (a sustained arc).
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