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Jury Verdicts Database for Cook County, Illinois, and All Counties in California, 1960-1984

(34 datasets; 525,204 KB)

Principal Investigator(s): Dunworth, Terence; Pace, Nicholas

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 ... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06232.v1

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