Caseloads & Case Weights

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The 1979 Federal District Court Time Study

Steven Flanders

January 1, 1980

A revision in the system of case weights used to assess the caseload burden in district courts.

Assessing the Feasibility of Case Weighting as a Method of Determining Judicial Work Load

Terence Dungworth, Jack Hausner, Richard Hildenbrand, Gary Oleson

January 1, 1978

Progress Report on Phase I: A Project to Develop a Predictive System for the Allocation of Judges

Institute for Law and Social Research

January 1, 1977

Appellate Court Case Weights Project

Federal Judicial Center, Federal Judicial Center Research Division

January 1, 1977

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.

Reduction of Data Base and Forecasts of Case Filings in the Federal District Courts

J.A. Mahaffey

June 1, 1976

After initial forecast modeling was done for each district, circuit, and for the nation as a whole, case filing volumes for 42 case categories were projected for 1979, 1984, and 1995.

District Court Caseload Forecasting: An Executive Summary

October 1, 1975

A summary of the first phase of the Center's project to develop a caseload forecasting model. The study concludes that indicator-based forecasts can and should be used to help allocate district court resources.

Court Caseload Weighting

William Renfro, Sarah Beckett

January 1, 1975

Volume I: An Executive Summary -- Volume II: Development and Test of a New Methods for Estimating Case Type Burdens -- Volume III: Development and Test of a New Method for simulating Case Type Burdens -- Appendices

Forecasts of Case Filing Volumes in the Federal District Courts

R. L. Hooper

December 1, 1974

The goal of this study was forecasts of case filing volumes in federal district courts. The effort was interdisciplinary involving statisticians, computer scientists, political scientists, lawyers, and economists.

Data Sources Utilized in Developing Case Filing Models for Federal District Courts

S. L. Owzarski

December 1, 1974

This is a reference guide to the demographic, economic and social indicator variables used in the development of forecasts for case filing volumes in the federal district courts.

Forecasts of Case Filing Volumes in the Federal District Courts, Appendix Volume III: Circuits Eight, Nine and Ten

June 1, 1974

The study was developed by Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories, under contract to the Federal Judicial Center.

Federal Judicial Center

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