Civil litigation in the United States, 1977-1979
By: principal investigators, David M. Trubek and Joel B. Grossman
Series: ICPSR -- 7994; ICPSR (Series) -- 7994
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Subjects: Civil procedure; Dispute resolution (Law)
Description: The Civil Litigation Research Project was based at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Organized in 1979, the major goals of the project were the development of a large data base on dispute processing and litigation and the collection of information, especially on the costs of civil litigation. The unit of analysis is the "dispute" or "case." These were selected from records of courts or alternative dispute processing institutions, or as reported by individuals in the household screening interview or the organizational screening interview. Thus the data collection includes information from several sources: court records on 1,645 cases in state and federal courts in five judicial districts (361 in Eastern Wisconsin, 316 in Central California, 298 in Eastern Pennsylvania, 301 in South Carolina, and 369 in New Mexico), information from the institutional records of cases sampled from various alternative dispute processing institutions, a screening survey of households, and surveys of lawyers, litigants, organizations and disputants identified by the screening survey. ICPSR has 3 data files and 19 files of documentation, frequencies, and introductory materials for this study.
Notes: Holding archive: Criminal Justice Archive and Information Network.

ICPSR data class: Class IV.

United States.

Funded by the Federal Justice Research Program of the United States Department of Justice.

Two of the data files are rectangular and have logical record lengths of of 160. The data and accompanying documentation are available from ICPSR in machine-readable form only.

Organizational screening: 1,516 records, 742 variables; Household screening: 5,202 records, 1,874 variables; Case records file: 2,631 disputes, 1,000 variables, 5,635 character maximum length.