Survey of Tort Litigants in Three State Courts, 1989-1990: [United States] (ICPSR 9699)

Version Date: Jan 12, 2006

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Principal Investigator(s):
Allan E. Lind; Deborah R. Hensler

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09699.v1

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Summary

This survey examines the experiences of tort litigants in three state courts: (1) Bucks County, Pennsylvania, (2) Prince George's County, Maryland, and (3) Fairfax County, Virginia. The survey was administered using a Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI) system. The most critical aspect of the CATI skip logic is that respondents were interviewed using different modules depending on their role in the dispute (plaintiff vs. defendant), the state/county, and the mode of resolution of their lawsuit. Questions were asked about the nature of the dispute, the plaintiff's financial losses, the defendant's report of damages claimed, events leading up to the lawsuit and finding a lawyer, arbitration cases, settlement conference cases, trial cases, bilateral settlement cases, costs of the lawsuit, social background, and overall evaluation of the experience.

Citation

Lind, Allan E., and Hensler, Deborah R. Survey of Tort Litigants in Three State Courts, 1989-1990:  [United States]. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-01-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09699.v1

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Funding

National Science Foundation. Law and Social Sciences Program

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1989 -- 1990

Date of Collection

1989 -- 1990
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Data Source

personal interviews

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

1992-05-12

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Lind, Allan E., and Deborah R. Hensler. Survey of Tort Litigants in Three State Courts, 1989-1990: [United States]. ICPSR09699-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09699.v1

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 3 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

1992-05-12 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:

  • Standardized missing values.
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Notes

  • The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.