Source: https://www.disc.wisc.edu/newcatalog/study.asp?tid=6055&id=829
Timestamp: 2018-01-22 12:21:37
Document Index: 463210304

Matched Legal Cases: ['art 5', 'art 1', 'art 1', 'art 2', 'arts 1', 'art 5']

GA-024-001-1-1-United States-ICPSR-1977
Study Number: GA-024-001-1-1-United States-ICPSR-1977
Bibliographic Citation: Civil litigation in the United States, 1977-1979. [machine-readable data file] / Kritzer, Herbert M. [principal investigator(s)] / Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor].
Originating Archive Number: 7994
Documentation: Codebook is machine-readable only
Abstract: The Civil Litigation Research Project, based at the University of Wisconsin Law School, was organized in 1979 to develop a large database on dispute processing and litigation and to collect information on the costs of civil litigation. Data were gathered on topics such as negotiation proceedings, relationship between lawyer and client, and organizations' influence on the outcome of a dispute.
SOURCE: court records, alternative dispute processing institution records, and personal interviews
NOTE: Documentation for this collection is machine-readable only. The unit of analysis is the ''dispute'' or ''case.'' The data collection consists of five files, the first two of which are hierarchical and variably blocked. Part 5 is also variably blocked. In Part 1, there are 75,996 records generated from data gathered on approximately 2,631 disputes. The number of records per case varies depending upon the characteristics of the dispute. There are 40 possible record types that may describe a dispute. Examples include (1) ''institutional'' records, which record the basic events that transpired during a case, (2) ''appeals'' records, which document the events surrounding the appeal of a case, and (3) ''relations with opponent'' records, which provide data on the nature of the relationship between the opposing parties in a dispute. The average record length for Part 1 is 142 characters, and the maximum record length is 1,025 characters. In Part 2, the microcomputer version of the dataset described above, there are 89,607 records generated from the same 2,631 disputes. The average record length is 112 characters with the maximum length being 254 characters. Parts 1 and 2 are documented by the same codebook. Column locations for the first record of the twelfth record type in the microcomputer data should be increased by 13 to match the data. The other records in this group are correctly documented. Part 5 is a text file containing open-ended questions and answers, and has a maximum logical record length of 80.
EXTENT OF COLLECTION: 5 data files + machine-readable documentation.
TIME PERIOD: 1977-1979
FUNDING AGENCY: (1) United States Department of Justice. Federal Justice Research Program, (2) United States Department of Justice. Office for Improvements in the Administration of Justice, (3) United States Department of Justice. National Institute of Justice, (4) National Institute for Dispute Resolution, and (5) National Science Foundation.
GRANT NUMBER: SES-8511622, and SES-8320129
SUBJECT TERMS: administrative behavior. arrests. attorneys. civil cases. clients. court cases. court systems. criminal justice system. defense attorneys. economic attitudes and behavior. expenditures. financial affairs. government expenditures. judges. judicial activities. legal systems. parole systems. plea bargaining. prosecuting attorneys. trials. United States.