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    • State Appellate Court Adaptation to Caseload Increase, 1968-1984: [United States]

    Metadata Updated: November 14, 2025

    This data collection examines the impact of caseload pressures on both intermediate appellate courts and supreme courts for each state in the nation. The data describe in detail the changes made by appellate courts and supply information related to each change. These changes include (1) adding judges, law clerks and staff attorneys, (2) expanding or creating intermediate appellate courts, (3) reducing panel size, (4) using summary procedures, (5) curtailing opinion practices by deciding cases without opinion or unpublished and memo opinions, and (6) curtailing oral argument length.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: us-pd

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date August 18, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date November 14, 2025

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    Harvested from DOJ JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date August 18, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date November 14, 2025
    Publisher National Institute of Justice
    Maintainer
    Identifier 2812
    Data First Published 1988-10-25T00:00:00
    Language eng
    Data Last Modified 1992-02-16T00:00:00
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 011:21
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://www.justice.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id b2a47a09-ec0f-439c-bdf3-ea450769f52c
    Harvest Source Id 3290e90a-116f-42fc-86ac-e65521ef3b68
    Harvest Source Title DOJ JSON
    License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
    Program Code 011:060
    Publisher Hierarchy Office of Justice Programs > National Institute of Justice
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash cc0ee135a4def134b700151beee66cd7cd49ba5b2334a41357ef256104823ac0
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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