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Typically, the district court handles criminal cases and felonies, while the county court handles everything else (like misdemeanors, traffic offenses, etc.). However, the size of a county makes a difference. In small counties, both courts hear a wide variety of different matters.

broadly speaking, the jurisdiction of "county courts" is limited to misdemeanors and civil actions involving amounts in controversy less than $15,000.00, while the "circuit courts" handle felonies and larger civil cases.

The county courts are sometimes referred to as "the people's courts," probably because a large part of the courts' work involves voluminous citizen disputes, such as traffic offenses, less serious criminal matters (misdemeanors), and relatively small monetary disputes.

The district court handles most traffic violations, all civil cases with claims up to $25,000, landlord-tenant matters, most traffic tickets, and all misdemeanor criminal cases (generally, cases where the accused, if found guilty, cannot be sentenced to more than one year in jail).

Typically, the district court handles criminal cases and felonies, while the county court handles everything else (like misdemeanors, traffic offenses, etc.). However, the size of a county makes a difference. In small counties, both courts hear a wide variety of different matters.

State courts have general jurisdiction, and generally can hear almost all sorts of cases. All states except Alaska are divided into counties, and generally each county has a court house where the court sits. So “county court” means the state court for a particular county.

Texas County Courts at Law are trial courts in Texas with concurrent jurisdiction over many cases with the district courts and county courts in the county. The County Courts at Law were created by the Texas Legislature for the counties with larger populations to aid the single county court in its judicial functions.

The primary distinction is that state and local courts are authorized to hear cases involving the laws and citizens of their state or city, while federal courts decide lawsuits between citizens of different states, cases against the United States, and cases involving specific federal laws.

Currently judges hear over 11,000 criminal and civil cases a year. The County Court has jurisdiction to hear all indictable offences except treason, murder and certain other murder- related offences.

District Courts are the trial courts of the federal system. Their criminal cases concern federal offenses, and their civil cases deal with matters of federal law or disputes between citizens of different states (remember subject matter jurisdiction).