{"meta":{"dataset":"federal-filings-county","title":"Federal civil cases filed, by county of the plaintiff's residence, case type and year (Federal Judicial Center)","version":"1.0.0","doi":"10.5281/zenodo.23750628","doiUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23750628","conceptDoi":"10.5281/zenodo.23750627","license":"CC BY 4.0","licenseUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Source: Probative, Federal civil cases filed, by county of the plaintiff's residence, case type and year (Federal Judicial Center), version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23750628, licensed CC BY 4.0.","citation":"Probative. (2026). Federal civil cases filed, by county of the plaintiff's residence, case type and year (Federal Judicial Center) (Version 1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23750628","disclaimer":"Not legal advice. These are counts of federal civil case filings from court records, kept for research and marketing planning. A filing says where a plaintiff lives and what kind of case was brought, not that a claim has merit, that a lawyer was hired or how a case ended. County means the county of residence of the first-listed plaintiff (the first-listed defendant's county when the United States sues; the tract's county in land condemnation cases), as the Federal Judicial Center codes it; the court also has codes for a plaintiff who lives in the U.S. outside the court's state and for one who lives abroad. Rights and deadlines in a matter are for your own counsel.","notice":"Probative is a marketing firm, not a law firm; not legal advice.","lastChecked":"2026-10-28","url":"https://probativegrowth.com/data/v1/federal-filings-county/changes.json","humanUrl":"https://probativegrowth.com/data/federal-filings-county/","statusCodes":{"P":"primary source","S":"secondary source","D":"ABA model default","U":"open question"}},"changes":[{"id":"federal-filings-county-2026-10-28-first","date":"2026-10-28","title":"Federal civil filings by county first published","summary":"Federal civil cases filed by the county where the first-listed plaintiff lives, by nature-of-suit group and practice area, FY2016-FY2025, from the Federal Judicial Center's Integrated Database; out-of-state, outside-U.S., retired-code and unrecorded-county totals shown as their own rows.","source":{"label":"Federal Judicial Center Integrated Database (civil)","url":"https://www.fjc.gov/research/idb"},"dataset":"federal-filings-county"}]}