Abstract
Bench and jury trials have been declining steadily for the past twenty years, both in absolute numbers and as a proportion of civil dispositions. This “vanishing trial” phenomenon was long suspected by many within the state court system, but has only recently been empirically confirmed. This issue of Caseload Highlights focuses on trends in civil trial characteristics and discusses possible causes of these trends and their implications for practitioners and policy-makers in state courts.
This abstract has been taken from the body of the report.
Document Type
Report
Publication Date
6-2005
Publication Information
11 Caseload Highlights (2005)
Repository Citation
Hannaford-Agor, Paula; LaFountain, Robert C.; and Strickland, Shauna, "Trial Trends and Implications for the Civil Justice System" (2005). Faculty Publications. 2405.
https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/facpubs/2405