Collaborative Project: Extending the Multi-User Dabase of Decisions of the U.S. Courts of Appeals

合作项目：扩展美国上诉法院判决的多用户数据库

• 批准号: 0318349
• 负责人: Susan Haire
• 金额: $ 11.56万
• 依托单位: University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-08-15 至 2005-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0318349&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Project; Extending; Multi; User

This project builds on the existing Multi-User Database of decisions on the U.S. Courts of Appeals. Originally funded with support from the National Science Foundation, the Multi-User Database is a comprehensive source drawn from a sample of published decisions of the U.S. Courts of Appeals. This rich dataset, with over 200 variables, currently includes observations for approximately 20,000 decisions of the appeals courts from 1926 to 1996. The collection of observations over a seventy-one year period has contributed to several published manuscripts that contribute to lines of inquiry that range from longitudinal analyses of issue agendas to models of case outcomes and judicial voting behavior. This comprehensive database on appeals court decisions has stimulated research on courts that had previously been described as "among the least comprehended of the major federal institutions." Nonetheless, the utility of this data source will diminish over time if it does not remain up-to-date. Shifts in political power at the national level, doctrinal change in High Court precedent, and evolving issues created by newly-passed statutes continue to characterize the decision making environment for appeals court judges in the twenty-first century. These developments require that law and courts scholarship continue to draw upon sources that are derived from current judicial decisions. This project extends the existing Multi-User Database to include decisions of the appeals courts from 1997-2002. In addition to updating the existing database, the proposal increases the sample size from the original sampling design and adds several variables to enhance the utility of this data source.

该项目建立在美国上诉法院的现有多用户数据库基础上。多用户数据库最初是在国家科学基金会的支持下资助的，是一个全面的来源，它是从美国上诉法院发表的裁决样本中获取的。 This rich dataset, with over 200 variables, currently includes observations for approximately 20,000 decisions of the appeals courts from 1926 to 1996. The collection of observations over a seventy-one year period has contributed to several published manuscripts that contribute to lines of inquiry that range from longitudinal analyses of issue agendas to models of case outcomes and judicial voting behavior.这个关于上诉法院判决的全面数据库激发了对以前被描述为“对主要联邦机构最不理解的法院的研究”。尽管如此，如果该数据源的实用性将随着时间的流逝而降低，则该数据源不会保持最新状态。国家一级的政治权力的转变，高等法院先例的教义变化以及新封闭的法规所构成的不断发展的问题继续描述了二十一世纪上诉法院法官的决策环境。这些事态发展要求法律和法院奖学金继续借鉴目前司法裁决的资料。该项目将现有的多用户数据库扩展到1997年至2002年的上诉法院的决定。除了更新现有数据库外，该提案还增加了原始采样设计的样本量，并添加了几个变量以增强该数据源的实用性。