State Court Civil Cases
This page utilizes a sampling that comprises about 30 thousand state tort, contract, and real property cases terminated during fiscal 1992 in the general jurisdiction trial court of 45 of the nation's most populous counties. The data were gathered and assembled by the National Center for State Courts and disseminated by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.
The data
include the subject matter category (branches
of tort, contract, and real property), the type
of parties, the dates of filing and termination
in the trial court, the procedural method of disposition,
and, when a summary judgment or trial
decision was entered, who prevailed.
(To get further information that should help in defining
the critical terms, you can click on the highlighted terms or go to the
920KB ICPSR state codebook readable with Adobe
Acrobat Reader. Also, the appendices to that codebook include three
articles, produced by the DOJ's Bureau of Justice Statistics, that use
and explain this database.)
This page makes the database available to you for performing certain statistical analyses.
- First, you specify the set of cases you want to examine.
- Second, you indicate what operations you want to perform on that data set.
