data were obtained by searching the database maintained at http://teddy.law.cornell.edu:8090/questtr7900.htm; the database contains data “gathered by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, assembled by the Federal Judicial Center, and disseminated by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research,” The search included case see id. “all” categories, with any of three bases of jurisdiction (“US defendant,” plaintiff,” or “US question”). (The search’s limitation on bases of jurisdiction was intended to “federal eliminate diversity cases, which presumably would typically involve state-law claims.) The search was limited to completed jury trials, within the Third Circuit, that terminated during the years 1996 - 2000. (For a discussion of the year variable, see http://teddy.law.cornell.edu:8090/year.htm.) The case categories were defined by reference to the category selected on the Civil Cover Sheet (available online at http://www.uscourts.gov/forms/JS044.pdf). Fifth ICPSR Edition (Ann Arbor, MI: See Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, 1993), available online at
data were obtained by searching the database maintained at http://teddy.law.cornell.edu:8090/questtr7900.htm; the database contains data “gathered by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, assembled by the Federal Judicial Center, and disseminated by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research,” see id. The search included “all” case categories, with any of three bases of jurisdiction (“US defendant,” “US plaintiff,” or “federal question”). (The search’s limitation on bases of jurisdiction was intended to eliminate diversity cases, which presumably would typically involve state-law claims.) The search was limited to completed jury trials, within the Third Circuit, that terminated during the years 1996 - 2000. (For a discussion of the year variable, see http://teddy.law.cornell.edu:8090/year.htm.) The case categories were defined by reference to the category selected on the Civil Cover Sheet (available online at http://www.uscourts.gov/forms/JS044.pdf). See Fifth ICPSR Edition (Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, 1993), available online at
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