ICPSR Metadata record for Civil Litigation in the United States, 1977-1979 ICPSR ICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/). Civil Litigation in the United States, 1977-1979 Kritzer, Herbert M. Trubek, David M. Felstiner, William L.F. Grossman, Joel B. Sarat, Austin Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research ICPSR 1994-02-18 7994 doi://10.3886/ICPSR07994.v3
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.
 UniverseScheme07994 Organization07994_1 SES-8511622, and SES-8320129 NACJD.IV ICPSR.XII arrests attorneys civil law court cases court system criminal justice system disposition (legal) legal systems plea negotiations United States 1977 1979 survey data Disputes processed in the United States by courts and by alternative third party institutions and those processed bilaterally, i.e., without the involvement of a third party. A random digit dialing scheme was employed for the screener surveys, and varying types of sampling designs were used for courts and institutions. See pages 0-7 through 0-11 of the Comprehensive Datafile codebook for complete details of sampling procedures. court records, alternative dispute processing institution records, and personal interviews 1979 1979 ICPSR
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http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ netmail@icpsr.umich.edu (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. StudyUnit07994
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 textfile containing open-ended questions and answers, and has a maximum logical record length of 80.