Integrated Database: Civil Cases
Public cumulative tab-delimited and annual SAS civil-case files covering U.S. district-court filings, terminations, and pending cases from 1988 forward, with a separate 1970–1987 file. Federal-only; judgment amounts are…
Questions this answers
4 · best fit firstPublic federal full files provide court and case-type keys, filing and termination dates, disposition codes, reporting year, and pending records for reproducible elapsed-time benchmarks.
Public full files provide filing/termination dates, disposition and progress codes, nature of suit, year, and federal venue identifiers for cohort disposition and duration calculation.
Federal full files identify court-trial dispositions, judgment winner, nature of suit, year, and venue for supplemental bench-outcome frequencies; unreliable amount fields are excluded.
Jury-verdict disposition, judgment winner, judgment type, suit type, year, and federal venue support outcome benchmarks; award amounts are expressly unreliable and excluded.
Fields it delivers
10 fieldsThe first-party page covers civil cases in U.S. district courts; it is a federal-court dataset for the United States.
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