Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-1996
Keywords
Empirical research, Federal courts, Jury-tried cases, Judge-tried cases
Disciplines
Applied Statistics | Civil Procedure | Courts | Judges | Legal Writing and Research | Litigation
Recommended Citation
Eisenberg, Theodore and Clermont, Kevin M., "Courts in Cyberspace" (1996). Cornell Law Faculty Publications. 244.
https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/facpub/244
Publication Citation
Published in: Journal of Legal Education, vol. 46, no. 1 (March 1996).
Included in
Applied Statistics Commons, Civil Procedure Commons, Courts Commons, Judges Commons, Legal Writing and Research Commons, Litigation Commons
Comments
Empirical research is a drag. It involves numbers and fact-checking and consideration of alternative explanations, and often it requires qualification that strips away its headline potential and popular memorability. This article champions the empirical approach over the anecdotal. It reports, by way of illustration, a counterintuitive empirical result about the speed with which jury-tried cases are processed. Our primary mission, however, is to report that obtaining this result was not a drag, thanks to some unique capabilities of the much-hyped information superhighway.