• Estimating the Cost
    of Civil Litigation

    Complaints about litigation costs have likely existed for as long as the legal profession, but those costs are extremely difficult to measure. Most studies of litigation costs rely on surveys that ask lawyers to report costs in a sample of actual cases filed in court.

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  • Examining the Work
    of State Courts

    For over 30 years, the Court Statistics Project at the NCSC has served as the national archive of state court caseload statistics.

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  • Managing Data Quality in California's Trial Courts

    The California Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) collects data from its 58 superior courts and publishes an annual Court Statistics Report with detailed caseload and disposition information.

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  • Medical Malpractice Litigation in State Courts

    This issue of Caseload Highlights presents data on the scope, characteristics, and outcomes of medical malpractice litigation in state courts. Caseload data are taken from the Court Statistics Project; trial data are from the 2005 Civil Justice Survey of State Courts.

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