Federal Court Cases: Integrated Data Base, 2004 (ICPSR 4348)

Principal Investigator(s): Federal Judicial Center

Summary:

Series: Federal Court Cases: Integrated Database Series

• One or more files in this study are not available for download due to special restrictions; consult the restrictions note to learn more. Additional information can also be found in the Use Agreement.

  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.

  Data users interested in the Civil Terminations Data - PLT and DEF Included (DS4) will need to specify in the Restricted Data Use Agreement form why those variables are necessary.

Federal Judicial Center. Federal Court Cases: Integrated Data Base, 2004. ICPSR04348-v3. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-11-11. doi:10.3886/ICPSR04348.v3

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04348.v3

Export Citation:

• RIS (generic format for RefWorks, EndNote, etc.)
• EndNote XML (EndNote X4.0.1 or higher)

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

Smallest Geographic Unit:   county

Geographic Coverage:   United States

Time Period:  

• 2004

Date of Collection:  

• 2004

Unit of Observation:   Appellate terminations data - case, Civil terminations data - case, Criminal data - defendant

Universe:   All federal court cases in the United States in 2004.

Data Types:   administrative records data

Data Collection Notes:

Starting with the year 2001, each year of data for Federal Court Cases is released by ICPSR as a separate study number. Federal Court Cases data for the years 1970-2000 can be found in FEDERAL COURT CASES: INTEGRATED DATA BASE, 1970-2000 (ICPSR 8429).

Data Source:

computerized court records

administrative records

Extent of Processing:  ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR 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, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

• Created variable labels and/or value labels.
• Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.

Original ICPSR Release:  2005-11-04

Version History:

• 2013-01-14 Docket numbers are 9-filled as requested by the PI.
• 2011-11-11 All parts are being moved to restricted access and will be available only using the restricted access procedures.
• 2006-03-17 Two additional data files were added with SAS and SPSS setup files and an updated codebook for each.

• List all 246 variables in this study

• Search the variables in this study

Use any of the notification links to add this study to your RSS feed; you will then receive notification if the study is substantively updated.

• Citations exports are provided above.

• Export Study-level metadata (does not include variable-level metadata)

  • DDI Codebook or DDI Lifecycle

  • Dublin Core

  • MARC21 XML

  • DataCite XML

If you're looking for collection-level metadata rather than an individual metadata record, please visit our Metadata Records page.

• View Usage of this Study