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State trial-court caseloads, county by county

New cases and motions added to trial-court dockets, county by county: car-crash and other injury filings, other civil, family, juvenile and criminal. Texas first, straight from the Office of Court Administration, for the last two state fiscal years, with other states to follow as their caseloads become machine-readable.

Checked October 27, 2026 · CC BY 4.0 · Not legal advice

What is in this dataset?

How many cases are added to Texas trial-court dockets, by county, court level and case group, from the Office of Court Administration's annual statistical reports: district courts (civil, family, juvenile, criminal), constitutional county courts (civil, criminal, juvenile) and statutory county courts (civil, family, juvenile, felony, misdemeanor), for Texas fiscal years 2024 and 2025 (September 1 to August 31). The state rows also give district-court filings by case type: motor-vehicle injury, medical malpractice, other injury or damage, product liability, contract, real property, family and criminal types. Each record gives the cases added, the year before, the cases disposed and the cases pending at year end, and a rate per 100,000 residents for county rows. In every table the counties add up exactly to the report's own statewide row, and the district-court rows reconcile to the separate Activity Detail workbook. Counts only: no lawyer or firm is listed or ranked. The schema carries a state code so other states' machine-readable caseloads can be added under the same keys; case types are compared only within a state.

Use it to see where the legal work is in Texas. A case added is a new case or motion put on a court's docket, so the counts show how much demand each practice area has in each county; they do not show how many of those people hired a lawyer. Compare a county with the statewide row, with the year before, and per 100,000 residents. Read the court level: the same county can have district-court cases and county-court cases, and one level's count is not the county's total. Case types are the state's own categories and are not comparable across states.

Records
1,703
Look up by
256
court area (the state or a county)
Primary source
1,703

The letters are explained in what P, S, D and U mean.

Where does the data come from?

The Office of Court Administration's county summary and district activity detail workbooks (Excel) are read by machine and quoted back as printed. A table counts only if the counties add up to the workbook's own statewide Total row in every column; the district-court Total rows must also equal the Activity Detail workbook (the workbooks' sheet names and header dates are unreliable, so the reconciliation decides which sheet is which fiscal year), and the case-type columns must add up to the report's Total column.

Period covered
September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2025
Places
States, counties and individual courts
How often we refresh it
Once a year
Records read
October 27, 2026

Official sources

The sources the records cite most

What does a record look like?

The full records add the dates, the quoted source text and every field in the CSV and JSON files below.

What each of the 16 main columns means
state
Two-letter state code (TX for now)
area
TX for the whole state, or TX-COUNTYNAME for a county (uppercase, hyphens for spaces)
courtLevel
district, constitutional-county or statutory-county: the court level the count is for
group
The state's case group: civil, family, juvenile, criminal, felony or misdemeanor
measure
Court level, group and what is counted: added (cases and motions put on the docket) or filed-<case type> (district-court filings by case type, statewide)
caseType
The state's case type, as its report names it; empty for a whole group
fy
The state fiscal year (Texas: September 1 to August 31), e.g. 2024-25
value
Cases added to the docket (or filed, for a case type) in the fiscal year
priorValue
The same count for the year before
disposed
Cases disposed of in the year
pendingStart
Active cases pending at the start of the year (county rows)
pendingEnd
Active cases pending at the end of the year
reactivated
Cases reactivated during the year (county rows)
inactive
Cases placed on inactive status during the year (county rows)
population
The county's population estimate printed in the report (2024), or the sum of counties for TX
per100k
Cases added per 100,000 residents (county and state rows, not case types)

How do I use it in my own tools?

statecourts_lookup
For TX (the whole state) or one Texas county as TX-COUNTYNAME (for example TX-HARRIS or TX-DALLAS): cases added in fiscal year 2024–25 by court level and case group, each with the year before, cases disposed and pending, and the rate per 100,000 residents. TX also lists district-court filings by case type, such as motor-vehicle injury and medical malpractice.
statecourts_compare
The same caseload counts side by side for up to 10 areas (TX for the state, TX-HARRIS, TX-BEXAR and so on), with the rate per 100,000 residents.
statecourts_search
Caseload records whose text matches the words given, such as a county name, a court level (district courts, statutory county courts) or a case type (motor vehicle, medical malpractice).

How to cite this dataset

You can reuse, adapt and republish this data, including commercially, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC BY 4.0). The only condition is that you credit Probative and link to the source.

Version
1.0.0, released October 28, 2026
Every version
10.5281/zenodo.23723925 (always points to the newest)
License
CC BY 4.0

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Suggested citation

Probative. (2026). State trial-court caseloads by court level, county and case type: Texas district, constitutional county and statutory county courts, fiscal years 2023–24 and 2024–25 (Version 1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23723926

Credit line for a chart, table or article

Source: Probative, State trial-court caseloads by court level, county and case type: Texas district, constitutional county and statutory county courts, fiscal years 2023–24 and 2024–25, version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23723926, licensed CC BY 4.0.

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Not legal advice. These are counts from the Texas Office of Court Administration's published statistics, kept for marketing planning. A case added is a new case or motion on a court's docket, not a person or a client. Check the Office of Court Administration's current report.

What changed recently?

  • 2026-10-27 · Texas FY2025 read from the OCA annual statistical report (1703 records). (source)
  • 2026-10-27 · Texas FY2025 read from the OCA annual statistical report (1703 records). (source)
  • 2026-10-27 · Texas FY2025 read from the OCA annual statistical report (1703 records). (source)
  • 2026-10-27 · Texas FY2025 read from the OCA annual statistical report (1703 records). (source)

The full log is in changes.json.

What are the limits?

  • A case added is a new case or a motion put on a court's docket. It is not a person, and it does not tell you how many of those people hired a lawyer.
  • Texas counts by state fiscal year, from September to August. The latest year is the one ending in August 2025, and the Office of Court Administration publishes about a year behind.
  • The count depends on the court level. A county can have district-court cases and county-court cases, and one level is not the county's total. Counties with no cases reported at a level have no record for it.
  • Cases added are not the same as new filings. For criminal and juvenile groups they include motions to revoke or modify; the statewide case-type records show new filings only, so the two do not match and should not be added together.
  • Case types follow each state's own categories, so they are compared only within a state. No crosswalk between states has been built.
  • The Office of Court Administration's workbooks carry stale titles and header dates, so we assign each sheet to its fiscal year by checking that its totals match the separate Activity Detail workbook. A sheet that cannot be matched stops the build.
  • Counts only. The data never lists or ranks individual lawyers or firms.
  • Records older than 400 days since their last check are marked stale in the files until we re-check them. Every confirmed error we fix is listed in the data corrections log.

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