Database Links

If you scroll down the typelists on the right of this blog, you'll notice that I've added a new list entitled "Databases" (between "Conferences" and "Recent Posts").  This list provides links to a number of useful data sources such as the Songer U.S. Court of Appeals database, the Spaeth Supreme Court database, and Keith Poole's common space scores.   I hope our readers find this useful.  I'm now taking requests to add more online databases to the list.  Comments are open.

Comments

[Jerry Stephens]

I'll second the comments. Thank you adding what looks like an excellent collection of links.

[Margo Schlanger]

Some additional resources:
Bureau of Justice Statistics

National Center for State Courts: court statistics project

St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, On-line court records

Attributes of United States Appeals Court Judges, 1801-1994

Lower Federal Court Confirmation Database, 1977-2004

State Supreme Court Database

Supreme Court Ideal Point Research (by Andrew Martin and Kevin Quinn)

Supreme Court Justices' Papers:
Library of Congress collections description
Blackmun papers website (Library of Congress)

Blackmun papers archive (currently in prototype) (Lee Epstein and Harold Spaeth)

"Teddy": State and federal statistics query engine (sponsored by Ted Eisenberg and Kevin Clermont, Cornell Law School)
Federal; State trials; State cases

Washington University Supreme Court Forecasting Project

Links to all of these, plus a large index of online and print resources on American trial trends (including several otherwise unavailable datasets), are posted at my homepage (http://schlanger.wustl.edu). You're obviously welcome to harvest the links for any that you think would be of more general interest.

[William Henderson]

Jason, this is nice addition to the site. Thanks for tracking down all those links. bh.