Reporting Definitions & FAQs

These documents are crucial to understanding the CSP data and what they represent.

This document defines the case types and characteristics collected by the Court Statistics Project.

A description of court tiers and how they are aggregated from the individual courts.

Wondering about a term used in the CSP? Here's a glossary of all of them.

Definitions and counting rules for cases with self-represented litigants.

Answers to FAQs and assistance for mapping state trial court case types to the CSP framework.