|
|
Study No.: |
08429 |
Title: |
Federal Court Cases: Integrated Data Base, 1970-2000 |
Principal Investigator(s): |
Federal Judicial Center
|
Bibliographic Citation: |
Federal Judicial Center. Federal Court Cases: Integrated Data Base, 1970-2000. ICPSR08429-v7. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2012-05-22. doi:10.3886/ICPSR08429.v7 |
Series: |
Federal Court Cases: Integrated Database Series |
|
|
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 94 district and 12 appellate court offices throughout
the United States. Information was obtained at two points in the life
of a case: filing and termination. The termination data contain
information on both filing and terminations, while the pending data
contain only filing information. For the appellate and civil data, the
unit of analysis is a single case. The unit of analysis for the
criminal data is a single defendant.
|
Subject Terms: |
administration,
appellate courts,
case dismissal,
case processing,
civil law,
court cases,
criminal law,
defendants,
disposition (legal),
federal courts,
judicial decisions,
legal systems,
pretrial procedures,
records,
trial courts,
trial procedures
|
Geographic Coverage: |
United States
|
Time Period: |
|
Date of Collection: |
|
Universe: |
All federal court cases, 1970-2000.
|
Data Types: |
event/transaction data
|
Data Collection Notes: |
(1) Several, but not all, of these record counts
include a final blank record. Researchers may want to detect this
occurrence and eliminate this record before analysis. (2) In July
1984, a major change in the recording and disposition of an appeal
occurred, and several data fields dealing with disposition were
restructured or replaced. The new structure more clearly delineates
mutually exclusive dispositions. Researchers must exercise care in
using these fields for comparisons. (3) In 1992, the Administrative
Office of the United States Courts changed the reporting period for
statistical data. Up to 1992, the reporting period, or "statistical
year," went from July through June (e.g., statistical year 1990
covered the period July 1989 through June 1990). In 1992, the
statistical reporting period was changed to conform to the federal
government's standard fiscal year, October through September (e.g.,
fiscal year 1993 covered the period October 1992 through September
1993). The 1970-1991 files, Parts 1-56 and 58-75, conform to the old
statistical year (SY70-SY91). The 1992 data files, Parts 82 and 86,
cover a 15-month time span (July 1991 through September 1992) to
accommodate this conversion period. Subsequent files conform to the
new fiscal year (October through September). (4) In fiscal year 1993,
there was a change in the policy regarding the counting of defendants
who had been fugitive for more than one year. Instead of remaining in
the "Pending" file for that year, these cases are put into a separate
"Criminal (Fugitive) Pending" file after the year has expired. This
change is reflected beginning with the 1995 data. (5) Undocumented
codes are present in the data. (6) The part numbers are not
consecutive. (7) It is recommended by the principal investigators that
only the most recent "Pending" files be used in analysis. (8) Starting
in 1996, there are no longer separate criminal terminations and
criminal pending data files. These two files were combined into one
file called "Criminal Data." (9) In 2005 additional confidentiality
measures were applied to many of the data files. Seventy-six data files
had identifying information removed from the public use files. There
are restricted use files which contain the data removed in 2005. A Data
Transfer Agreement Form must be submitted to NACJD to obtain these data.
|
|
|
Data Source: |
computerized court records, administrative records
|
Extent of Processing: |
All archived data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. The archive also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, the archive performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
-
Performed consistency checks.
-
Standardized missing values.
-
Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
|
|
|
Note: |
Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed
in the file manifest. |
Original ICPSR Release: |
1990-04-30 |
Restrictions: |
The data are restricted from general dissemination. Users interested in
obtaining these data must complete a restricted data Use Agreement form
and specify the reasons for the request. A copy of the Restricted Data
Use Agreement form can be requested by calling 800-999-0960. Researchers
can also download this form as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file from
the download page associated with this dataset. Completed forms should be
returned to: Director, National Archive of Criminal Justice Data,
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, Institute
for Social Research, P.O. Box 1248, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
48106-1248, or by fax: 734-647-8200
|
Version History: |
2012-05-22 All parts are being moved to restricted access and will be available only using the restricted access procedures. 2005-04-29 The codebook files in Parts 57, 94, and
95 have undergone minor edits and been incorporated with their
respective datasets. The SAS files in Parts 90, 91, 227, and 229-231
have undergone minor edits and been incorporated with their respective
datasets. The SPSS files in Parts 92, 93, 226, and 228 have undergone
minor edits and been incorporated with their respective datasets.
Parts 15-28, 34-56, 61-66, 70-75, 82-89, 96-105, 107, 108, and 115-121
have had identifying information removed from the public use file and
restricted data files that still include that information have been
created. These parts have had their SPSS, SAS, and PDF codebook files
updated to reflect the change. The data, SPSS, and SAS files for Parts
34-37 have been updated from OSIRIS to LRECL format. The codebook
files for Parts 109-113 have been updated. The case counts for Parts
61-66 and 71-75 have been corrected in the study description. The
LRECL for Parts 82, 100-102, and 105 have been corrected in the study
description. 2003-04-03 A codebook was created for Part 105,
Civil Pending, 1997. Parts 232-233, SAS and SPSS setup files for Civil
Data, 1996-1997, were removed from the collection since the civil data
files for those years have corresponding SAS and SPSS setup files. 2002-04-25 Criminal data files for Parts 109-113
have all been replaced with updated files. The updated files contain
Criminal Terminations and Criminal Pending data in one file for the
years 1996-2000. Part 114, originally Criminal Pending 2000, has been
removed from the study and the 2000 pending data are now included in
Part 113. 2001-08-13 The following data files were revised to
include plaintiff and defendant information: Appellate Terminations,
2000 (Part 107), Appellate Pending, 2000 (Part 108), Civil
Terminations, 1996-2000 (Parts 103, 104, 115-117), and Civil Pending,
2000 (Part 118). The corresponding SAS and SPSS setup files and PDF
codebooks have also been edited. 2001-04-12 Criminal Terminations (Parts 109-113)
data for 1996-2000 and Criminal Pending (Part 114) data for 2000 have
been added to the data collection, along with corresponding SAS and
SPSS setup files and PDF codebooks. 2001-03-26 Appellate Terminations (Part 107) and
Appellate Pending (Part 108) data for 2000 have been added to the data
collection, along with corresponding SAS and SPSS setup files and PDF
codebooks. 1997-07-16 The data for 18 of the Criminal Data
files were matched to the wrong part numbers and names, and now have
been corrected.
|
Dataset(s): |
- DS1: Criminal Terminations for 1970
- DS2: Criminal Terminations for 1971
- DS3: Criminal Terminations for 1972
- DS4: Criminal Terminations for 1973
- DS5: Criminal Terminations for 1974
- DS6: Criminal Terminations for 1975
- DS7: Criminal Terminations for 1976
- DS8: Criminal Terminations for 1977
- DS9: Criminal Terminations for 1978
- DS10: Criminal Terminations for 1979
- DS11: Criminal Terminations, 1980
- DS12: Criminal Terminations, 1981
- DS13: Criminal Terminations, 1982
- DS14: Criminal Terminations, 1983
- DS15: Appellate Terminations for 1971
- DS16: Appellate Terminations for 1972
- DS17: Appellate Terminations for 1973
- DS18: Appellate Terminations for 1974
- DS19: Appellate Terminations for 1975
- DS20: Appellate Terminations for 1976
- DS21: Appellate Terminations for 1977
- DS22: Appellate Terminations for 1978
- DS23: Appellate Terminations for 1979
- DS24: Appellate Terminations for 1980
- DS25: Appellate Terminations for 1981
- DS26: Appellate Terminations for 1982
- DS27: Appellate Terminations for 1983
- DS28: Appellate Terminations for 1984
- DS29: Criminal Terminations for 1984
- DS30: Criminal Terminations for 1985
- DS31: Criminal Terminations for 1986
- DS32: Criminal Terminations for 1987
- DS33: Criminal Pending, 1987
- DS34: Appellate Terminations, 1985
- DS35: Appellate Terminations, 1986
- DS36: Appellate Terminations, 1987
- DS37: Appellate Pending, 1987
- DS38: Civil Terminations, 1970
- DS39: Civil Terminations, 1971
- DS40: Civil Terminations, 1972
- DS41: Civil Terminations, 1973
- DS42: Civil Terminations, 1974
- DS43: Civil Terminations, 1975
- DS44: Civil Terminations, 1976
- DS45: Civil Terminations, 1977
- DS46: Civil Terminations, 1978
- DS47: Civil Terminations, 1979
- DS48: Civil Terminations, 1980
- DS49: Civil Terminations, 1981
- DS50: Civil Terminations, 1982
- DS51: Civil Terminations, 1983
- DS52: Civil Terminations, 1984
- DS53: Civil Terminations, 1985
- DS54: Civil Terminations, 1986
- DS55: Civil Terminations, 1987
- DS56: Civil Pending, 1987
- DS58: Criminal Terminations, 1988
- DS59: Criminal Terminations, 1989
- DS60: Criminal Pending, 1989
- DS61: Appellate Terminations, 1988
- DS62: Appellate Terminations, 1989
- DS63: Appellate Pending, 1989
- DS64: Civil Terminations, 1988
- DS65: Civil Terminations, 1989
- DS66: Civil Pending, 1989
- DS67: Criminal Terminations, 1990
- DS68: Criminal Terminations, 1991
- DS69: Criminal Pending, 1991
- DS70: Appellate Terminations, 1990
- DS71: Appellate Terminations, 1991
- DS72: Appellate Pending, 1991
- DS73: Civil Terminations, 1990
- DS74: Civil Terminations, 1991
- DS75: Civil Pending, 1991
- DS76: Criminal Terminations, 1992
- DS77: Criminal Terminations, 1993
- DS78: Criminal Terminations, 1994
- DS79: Criminal Terminations, 1995
- DS80: Criminal Pending, 1995
- DS81: Criminal (Fugitive) Pending, 1995
- DS82: Appellate Terminations, 1992
- DS83: Appellate Terminations, 1993
- DS84: Appellate Terminations, 1994
- DS85: Appellate Pending, 1994
- DS86: Civil Terminations, 1992
- DS87: Civil Terminations, 1993
- DS88: Civil Terminations, 1994
- DS89: Civil Pending, 1994
- DS96: Appellate Terminations, 1995
- DS97: Appellate Pending, 1995
- DS98: Civil Terminations, 1995
- DS99: Civil Pending, 1995
- DS100: Appellate Terminations, 1996
- DS101: Appellate Terminations, 1997
- DS102: Appellate Pending, 1997
- DS103: Civil Terminations, 1996
- DS104: Civil Terminations, 1997
- DS105: Civil Pending, 1997
- DS107: Appellate Terminations, 2000
- DS108: Appellate Pending, 2000
- DS109: Criminal Data, 1996
- DS110: Criminal Data, 1997
- DS111: Criminal Data, 1998
- DS112: Criminal Data, 1999
- DS113: Criminal Data, 2000
- DS115: Civil Terminations, 1998
- DS116: Civil Terminations, 1999
- DS117: Civil Terminations, 2000
- DS118: Civil Pending, 2000
- DS119: Appellate Terminations, 1998
- DS120: Appellate Terminations, 1999
- DS121: Appellate Pending, 1999
|
