Jury Verdicts Database for Cook County, Illinois and All Counties In California, 1960-1984 / Terence Dunworth, Nicholas Pace.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Dunworth, Terence.

Pace, Nicholas.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 6232.

ICPSR ; 6232

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Verdicts--Illinois--Databases.

Verdicts.

Verdicts--California--Databases.

California.

Illinois.

Genre:

Databases.

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

ICPSR version.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1994.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

This data collection contains information on jury verdict civil cases in Cook County, Illinois, and all counties in California. The RAND Corporation's Institute for Criminal Justice began this study in the early 1980s in response to widespread public interest in the magnitude of dollar verdicts returned in civil cases. The goal was to record salient information found in court reporter publications to allow for a wide range of future research. Two such publications were chosen because of their favorable reputations and because they both dated back to 1960: the ''Cook County Jury Verdict Reporter'' of Chicago, Illinois, and ''Jury Verdicts Weekly'' of Santa Rosa, California. The collection of data for this study was conducted in two phases. Phase I included cases from 1960-1979, and Phase II coded cases from 1980-1984, including a small number of cases from 1985. In both phases, only cases in which a jury reached a definitive outcome (including deadlocked or hung juries) were included. In Phase I, only San Francisco County cases from the California reporter publication were included. In Phase II, all California counties were included. For all cases in Phase I, a Main Form was completed that included jurisdiction, court type, dates of incidents and trial, information about parties involved, trial occurrences, outcome of trial, awards, and fees. In addition to this Main Form, at least one of nine different case-type forms was completed: Common Carrier-Passenger Form, Dram Shop Form, Injuries on Property/Attractive Nuisance Form, Malpractice Form, Miscellaneous Form, Products Liability Form, Street Hazards/Highway Construction Form, Traffic/Pedestrian/Rider Form, and Work Injuries and FELA Form. These forms contained questions regarding the behavior of each party in the case and other characteristics and facts relevant to the case. A Jury Verdict... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06232

Contents:

Part 1: Phase I Main Form Data; Part 2: SAS Data Definition Statements for Phase I Main Form Data; Part 3: Phase I Common Carrier-Passenger Form Data; Part 4: SAS Data Definition Statements for Phase I Common Carrier-Passenger Form Data; Part 5: Phase I Dram Shop Form Data; Part 6: SAS Data Definition Statements for Phase I Dram Shop Form Data; Part 7: Phase I Injuries on Property/Attractive Nuisance Form Data; Part 8: SAS Data Definition Statements for Phase I Injuries on Property/ Attractive Nuisance Form Data; Part 9: Phase I Malpractice Form Data; Part 10: SAS Data Definition Statements for Phase I Malpractice Form Data; Part 11: Phase I Miscellaneous Form Data; Part 12: SAS Data Definition Statements for Phase I Miscellaneous Form Data; Part 13: Phase I Products Liability Form Data; Part 14: SAS Data Definition Statements for Phase I Products Liability Form Data; Part 15: Phase I Street Hazards/Highway Construction Form Data; Part 16: SAS Data Definition Statements for...

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2004-10-30.

OCLC:

61156771

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.