Federal Court Cases : Integrated Data Base, 2011/ Federal Judicial Center .

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Federal Judicial Center.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 33622.

ICPSR ; 33622

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

2013-01-08.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2012.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

The purpose of this data collection is to provide an official public record of the business of the federal courts. The data originate from district and appellate court offices throughout the United States. Information was obtained at two points in the life of appellate and civil cases: filing and termination. The termination data (archived in this data collection) contain information on both filing and terminations, while the pending data (archived as a separate data collection) contain only filing information on the most recent pending cases. The unit of analysis for the appellate and civil terminations data is the case. This collection also contains data on criminal cases in federal courts. However, the unit of analysis for the criminal data is the defendant, and a defendant can be included in several cases. Cf.: http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR33622.v2

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2015-01-05.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.