DOI: 10.3886/icpsr09266.v1
title: State Court Statistics, 1985-2001: [United States]
title: Version 1

description: This data collection provides comparable measures of state appellate and trial court caseloads by type of case for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Court caseloads are tabulated according to generic reporting categories developed by the Court Statistics Project Committee of the Conference of State Court Administrators. These categories describe differences in the unit of count and the point of count when compiling each court's caseload. Major areas of investigation include (1) case filings in state appellate and trial courts, (2) case processing and dispositions in state appellate and trial courts, and (3) appellate opinions. Within each of these areas of state government investigation, cases are separated by main case type, including civil cases, capital punishment cases, other criminal cases, juvenile cases, and administrative agency appeals.
description: Datasets: DS0: Study-Level Files DS1: Appellate Court Data, 1987 DS2: Trial Court Data, 1987 DS3: Appellate Court Data, 1988 DS4: Trial Court Data, 1988 DS5: Appellate Court Data, 1989 DS6: Trial Court Data, 1989 DS7: Appellate Court Data, 1990 DS8: Trial Court Data, 1990 DS9: Appellate Court Data, 1991 DS10: Trial Court Data, 1991 DS11: Appellate Court Data, 1992 DS12: Trial Court Data, 1992 DS13: SAS Data Definition Statements for Appellate Court Data, 1988 DS14: SAS Data Definition Statements for Appellate Court Data, 1989 DS15: SAS Data Definition Statements for Appellate Court Data, 1990 DS16: SAS Data Definition Statements for Appellate Court Data, 1991 DS17: SAS Data Definition Statements for Appellate Court Data, 1992 DS18: SAS Data Definition Statements for Trial Court Data, 1988 DS19: SAS Data Definition Statements for Trial Court Data, 1989 DS20: SAS Data Definition Statements for Trial Court Data, 1990 DS21: SAS Data Definition Statements for Trial Court Data, 1991 DS22: SAS Data Definition Statements for Trial Court Data, 1992 DS23: Codebook for Appellate Court Data, 1988-1992 DS24: Codebook for Trial Court Data, 1988-1992 DS25: Appellate Court Data, 1985 DS26: Trial Court Data, 1985 DS27: Appellate Court Data, 1986 DS28: Trial Court Data, 1986 DS29: Appellate Court Data, 1993 DS30: Trial Court Data, 1993 DS31: Appellate Court Data, 1994 DS32: Trial Court Data, 1994 DS33: Appellate Court Data, 1995 DS34: Trial Court Data, 1995 DS35: Appellate Court Data, 1996 DS36: Trial Court Data, 1996 DS37: Appellate Court Data, 1997 DS38: Trial Court Data, 1997 DS39: Appellate Court Data, 1998 DS40: Trial Court Data, 1998 DS41: Appellate Court Data, 1999 DS42: Trial Court Data, 1999 DS43: Appellate Court Data, 2000 DS44: Trial Court Data, 2000 DS45: Appellate Court Data, 2001 DS46: Trial Court Data, 2001
description: State appellate and trial court cases in the United States.
description: The Court Statistics Project Web page is: http://www.ncsconline.org/D_Research/csp/CSP_Main_Page.html.A user guide containing court codes and variable descriptions for the 1987 data and the codebooks for the 1995-2001 data are provided as Portable Document Format (PDF) files, and the codebooks for the 1988-1992 data are available in both ASCII text and PDF versions.