Venue Trial Resolution

Court Docket Data

A court docket is an official record containing the history and current status of a legal case. Our court docket data includes information extracted from court dockets. SigmaSight captures dockets from 2019 through 2024.

Trial Rate

Venue trial rate refers to the trial rate for all of the resolved cases detected in court docket data within the venue. The trial rate refers to the percentage of cases that resolve by jury trial verdict as opposed to being settled out of court or resolved through other means. It is calculated by dividing the total number of cases that are resolved by a decision at trial by the total number of resolved cases.

Cases resolved by trial per year

The trial rate presented on an annual basis. National average refers to the trial rate for the nation and state average refers to the trial rate for the state.

More About Court Docket Data

Not all state courts have their court records available online for the public to see. Online court records are available for about 80% of the state court systems, including those with the most cases. The 20% that don't have their records online only represent about 6% of the litigation volume in the United States.

Even when court records are available online, the access can be different for each county. We estimate that more than 80% of all state court lawsuits have their records available online.

We work with court data partners to get the raw court records from the county court systems. We then clean up the data, standardize and normalize it (make it all look the same), and create models to analyze the information.

Sometimes, the court records may be available online, but our court data partners can't get the information. County court systems often change how they allow people to access their court records. This could be from basic maintenance, upgrades, changes to how the information is organized, or adding fees to see the records. Usually, our court data partners will get the records eventually, but it might take anywhere from a few months to two years. Most of the time, it takes about one year.

All the companies that provide court data face challenges keeping up with these changes because there are so many county courts. We want to let you know that this is why you may not be able to see court records for a specific location or lawyer.