State Appellate Court Adaptation to Caseload Increase, 1968-1984: [United States] (ICPSR 8262)

Published: Feb 16, 1992

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Principal Investigator(s):
Thomas Marvell; Carlisle Moody

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08262.v1

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Summary

This data collection examines the impact of caseload pressures on both intermediate appellate courts and supreme courts for each state in the nation. The data describe in detail the changes made by appellate courts and supply information related to each change. These changes include (1) adding judges, law clerks and staff attorneys, (2) expanding or creating intermediate appellate courts, (3) reducing panel size, (4) using summary procedures, (5) curtailing opinion practices by deciding cases without opinion or unpublished and memo opinions, and (6) curtailing oral argument length.

Citation

Marvell, Thomas, and Moody, Carlisle. State Appellate Court Adaptation to Caseload Increase, 1968-1984: [United States]. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08262.v1

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Funding

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice (83-IJ-CX-4046)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Time Period(s)

1968 -- 1984

Date of Collection

1984 -- 1985

Data Collection Notes

These data are organized in a time-series cross-sectional design.

Universe

All state appellate courts in the United States.

Data Source

annual reports published by state court administrators' offices, unpublished internal statistical reports, state rules of appellate courts, literature describing appellate court operations, published opinions of case reporters, and multi-state publications containing survey information for more than one state

Data Type(s)

aggregate data

Original Release Date

1988-10-25

Version Date

1992-02-16

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.

  • The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented.
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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.