Planning for a Multi-User Data Base for the U.S. Courts of Appeals

司法程序和司法判决的行使可以 通过法院判决的经验数据的发展来说明 各级司法机关。 桑格医生计划 一个项目开发了一个多用户数据的建设设计 根据美国上诉法院审理的案件。 的目的 规划补助金是为了评估多用途的科学潜力， 上诉法院数据库，确定 这样一个数据资源，并制定一个系统的工作模型， 可靠和标准化的数据收集。 为了确保 数据库项目旨在最大限度地利用潜在的 Songer博士的项目包括与一个咨询机构积极合作， 委员会，以确保广泛的公法学者的投入， 数据集的理论效用、其方法 重要性，其在当前和预期方面的适当性 未来的学术兴趣，标准化的成本和收益， 投资于将未出版的 意见、数据定义和可靠性。 希望这一 规划补助金将允许开发数据集， 包含具有理论和实际意义的措施 为最高法院的其他数据集开发的数据集， 地区法院。

Judicial process and the exercise of judicial judgment can be illuminated by the development of empirical data on court decisions from judicial institutions at different levels. Dr. Songer's planning project develops a design for the construction of a multi-user data base on cases considered by the U.S. Courts of Appeal. The purpose of the planning grant is to assess the scientific potential of a multi-use data base on the courts of appeal, identify the scope and parameters of such a data resource, and develop a working model for the systematic, reliable, and standardized collection of data. In order to ensure that the data base project is designed to maximize the utility for potential users, Dr. Songer's project includes active work with an advisory committee to secure input from a broad range of public law scholars on issues of the theoretical utility of the data set, its methodological significance, its appropriateness in terms of current and anticipated future scholarly interests, the costs and benefits of standardization, the gains to be made from investing in the inclusion of unpublished opinions, data definition, and reliability. It is hoped that this planning grant will permit the development of a data set that will contain measures of theoretical and practical significance comparable to those being developed for other data sets on the Supreme Court and the district courts.