This page utilizes a database of about 3.7 million federal district-court civil cases terminated over the last 17 fiscal years. The data were gathered by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, assembled by the Federal Judicial Center, and disseminated by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.
When any civil case terminates in federal district court, the court clerk transmits a form to the Administrative Office containing information about the case. The form includes data regarding the subject matter category (such as branches of tort, contract, civil rights, and other areas of law), the jurisdictional basis, the amount demanded, the case's origin in the district as original or removed or transferred, the dates of filing and termination in the district, the procedural stage of the case at termination (including whether it was tried by judge or jury), the procedural method of disposition, and, when a judgment was entered, who prevailed and any amount awarded in damages or other relief. (To get further information that should help in defining the critical terms, you can click on the highlighted terms or go to the 210KB ICPSR civil
codebook.)
We have used the database in several articles. This page makes the database available to you for performing certain statistical analyses. So, at this point you take over. First, you specify the set of cases you want to examine. Second, you indicate what operations you want to perform on that data set.
Note that we are assuming that you're using a Netscape-type browser, but we're making efforts to avoid being browser-specific.
For the time being, to keep computer usage under control, you are limited to cases fully tried.