Attorney 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

Attorney trial rate refers to the trial rate for all of the resolved cases detected with this attorney in court docket data. 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 by year. National average refers to the trial rate for the nation.

Why does my attorney show no trial rates, but they have verdicts identified?

We capture dockets from 2019 through 2024. If a verdict was received on a case filed before 2019, it would not show up under this attorney's docket information in Analyzer.

There are times when a case may be filed by an attorney and then the resulting verdict is achieved by a different attorney.

We have strict criteria for attorney resolution. It is possible that we have not confirmed the identity of the attorney within the detected court docket data. In many court systems, whether their name shows on the docket filing can be somewhat random. Depending on the venue, we typically find that attorneys are identified in dockets on approximately 50-60% of their cases. There are certain venues where attorneys are identified less than 25% of cases which will impact the attorney statistics for each venue.

More About Court Docket Data

About 80% of state courts do have their records available online, including the courts with the most cases. The 20% that don't have their records online only have about 6% of all the court cases 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, 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 or buy it. 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.

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.