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

Published: Sep 11, 2015

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Principal Investigator(s):
Federal Judicial Center

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04348.v3

Version V3

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 district and 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.

Citation

Federal Judicial Center. Federal Court Cases:  Integrated Data Base, 2004. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2015-09-11. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04348.v3

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Funding

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

county

Restrictions

Access to these data is restricted. Users interested in obtaining these data must complete a Restricted Data Use Agreement, specify the reasons for the request, and obtain IRB approval or notice of exemption for their research.

Time Period(s)

2004

Date of Collection

2004

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).

Time Method

Cross-sectional

Universe

All federal court cases in the United States in 2004.

Unit(s) of Observation

Appellate terminations data - case

Civil terminations data - case

Criminal data - defendant

Data Source

administrative records

computerized court records

Data Type(s)

administrative records data

Original Release Date

2005-11-04

Version Date

2015-09-11

Version History

2015-09-11 Six data files were created with docket numbers blanked for Parts 1, 3, and 5, and with docket numbers containing original values for Parts 2, 4, and 6.

2013-01-14 Docket numbers are 9-filled as requested by the PI.

2006-03-17 Two additional data files were added with SAS and SPSS setup files and an updated codebook for each.

2005-11-04 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.

2011-11-11 All parts are being moved to restricted access and will be available only using the restricted access procedures.

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.

  • One or more files in this data collection have special restrictions. Restricted data files are not available for direct download from the website; click on the Restricted Data button to learn more.

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This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.