The Source for Crime and Justice Data

Civil Justice Survey of State Courts, 1992

(6 datasets; 244,947 KB)

Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics

Summary: This survey is the first broad-based, systematic examination of the nature of civil litigation in state general jurisdiction trial courts. Data collection was carried out by the National Center for State Courts with assistance from the National Association of Criminal Justice Planners and the United States Bureau of the Census. The data collection produced two datasets. Part 1, Tort, Contract, and Real Property Rights Data, is a merged sample of approximately 30,000 tort, contract, and real prop... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06587.v5

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