Data/Statistics on the U.S. Supreme Court
The Supreme Court Compendium by Call Number: Law Library Reference, KF8742 .S95 2021Publication Date: 2021- identification variables (e.g., citations and docket numbers);
- background variables (e.g., how the Court took jurisdiction, origin and source of the case, the reason the Court agreed to decide it);
- chronological variables (e.g., the date of decision, term of Court, natural court);
- substantive variables (e.g., legal provisions, issues, direction of decision);
- outcome variables (e.g., disposition of the case, winning party, formal alteration of precedent, declaration of unconstitutionality); and
- voting and opinion variables (e.g., how the individual justices voted, their opinions and interagreements).
- National Center for State Courts, Court Statistics ProjectA project of the National Center for State Courts. Caseload data from the courts of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
- JEDI The Judicial Elections Data Initiative"... data on elections to state courts of last resort from 1990 to 2010 in an effort to facilitate replication efforts and to stimulate new research in the area of state judicial selection."
