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Reports & Studies
Below is a list of a number of past published studies conducted by the Research Division. Some Center reports are not published or made publicly available due to restrictions in place from the source of the research request. Most research reports can be downloaded and in some instances, a hardcopy publication can be requested. See also Manuals, Monographs, & Guides.
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Appellate Court Case Weights Project An attempt to develop estimates of relative workload in the courts of appeals without detailed timekeeping by judges. Judges estimated the relative workload associated with various appeal types, and their estimates were used to calculate case weights. The report concluded that the weighted caseloads produced by this method were not useful measures of appellate workload, but cautioned that the method could not be adequately assessed given the inconsistencies in the appellate court statistical reporting systems in place in the mid-1970s. Please note: There is a typographical error in this document. The number VI was accidentally skipped when putting together the sequence of tables, but no text or table is missing from the report. Also note: This report is reprinted in Part Two of Managing Appeals in Federal Courts (1988). |
January 1, 1977 |
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Role of the Judge in the Settlement Process An analysis of some judicial techniques that help maximize the possibility of freely negotiated settlements. Reprinted in 75 Federal Rules Decisions 203 |
January 1, 1977 |
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Judicial Controls and the Civil Litigative Process: Discovery A description of the use of the discovery rules then in effect in a sample of more than 3,000 cases from six district courts. The report provides quantitative information on each discovery device and on discovery motions. The authors evaluate the relationship between the degree of judicial control and the time required for discovery and provide guidelines for judges to use in setting discovery time limits. This report is a product of the District Court Studies Project. |
January 1, 1978 |
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Courtran II Data Communications Requirements - |
January 1, 1978 |
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Operation of the Federal Judicial Councils An analysis of the creation and history of the councils, and an evaluation of the operation of the federal judicial councils before the 1980 statutory change. The authors assess the effectiveness of the guidelines for council activity that the Judicial Conference of the United States promulgated in 1974. |
January 1, 1978 |
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Staff Report and Recommendations to the Board of the FJC on the Federal Court Library System - |
January 1, 1978 |
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The Voir Dire Examination, Juror Challenges, and Adversary Advocacy A broad review of the legal and psychological issues presented by the voir dire examination and subsequent challenges of prospective jurors. The discussion is organized under four headings: interests, criteria, parameters, and methodology. An edited version of the paper is contained in The Trial Process (B. D. Sales ed., Plenum 1981). |
January 1, 1978 |
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Assessing the Feasibility of Case Weighting as a Method of Determining Judicial Work Load - |
January 1, 1978 |
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Time Trends in the Earnings of Attorneys: Preliminary Report - |
January 1, 1978 |
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Policies of the Parole Commission and the Bureau of Prisons as They Affect the Judge's Sentencing Opinions This paper is an introduction to understanding the relationship between a judge's sentence of imprisonment and the actions of those agencies that have responsibility for an offender after sentencing. It deals principally with policies affecting the duration of an offender's incarceration, and also includes some discussion of policies affecting the offender's experience while incarcerated. |
January 1, 1978 |