Readme for Federal Circuit data file created by Melissa F. Wasserman and Jonathan D. Slack. The data file contains Federal Circuit opinions in each row and case/opinion attributes on the columns. The data file covers opinions issued from 10.13.2004 through 1.30.2018. This data file is the basis for the article Can There Be Too Much Specialization? Specialization in Specialized Courts, 115 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1405 (2021), available at  https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/nulr/vol115/iss5/3. Portions of this data file are derived from The Compendium of Federal Circuit Decisions,  https://fedcircuit.shinyapps.io/federalcompendium. Other portions are derived from the Federal Circuit’s published opinions docket,  http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions-orders. The portion of this data file concerning Supreme Court review was derived from Harold J. Spaeth, Lee Epstein, et al. 2020 Supreme Court Database, Version 2020 Release 1,  http://scdb.wustl.edu/data.php.

Last modified

• 03/18/2021

Creator

• Slack, Jonathan D.
• Wasserman, Melissa F.

DOI

• https://doi.org/10.21985/n2-f33y-vj65

Publisher

• Northwestern Law Review

Keyword

• legal scholarship

Date created

• 2021

Related url

•  https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/nulr/vol115/iss5/3

Resource type

• Dataset

Rights statement

• In Copyright

License

• Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International