Mark:
I assume your search that resulted in 70,000 odd decisions included
federal appellate and federal district court decisions?
At the post TAP meeting at the DOJ, West said that it printed (and I am
giving rough numbers, this is what I recollect) 7000-8000 district court
decisions and that Lexis had 12000 -13000 decisions a year and Westlaw
was similar. Again, I do not recall the exact figures that West quoted.
The Lexis figures can be very misleading in that they may include
duplicates and orders such as rehearing orders or corrective orders.
What if you pull a sample and see what comes up (I hope that HRO has a
flat usage plan).
Alan Sugarman
HyperLaw
sugarman@panix.com
On Wed, 9 Nov 1994, Mark Estes wrote:
> Alan Sugarman asked:
>
> "How many district court decisions that contain a complete
> statement of the fact and an complete discussion of the law
> with citation were not published by West?"
>
> The numbers below don't answer that question but, overall growth is
> interesting. (I compiled these statistics for a budget
> comparison project in the firm by running a "date is" query
> on Lexis.)
>
>
> Federal Cases
>
> Year Number
> 1981 -- 34,934
> 1982 -- 36,779
> 1983 --38,891
> 1984 -- 41,212
> 1985 --41,872
> 1986 -- 49,670
> 1987 -- 50,491
> 1988 -- 51,912
> 1989 -- 54,681
> 1990 -- 57,779
> 1991 -- 65,913
> 1992 -- 69,180
> 1993 -- 68,078
> 1994 -- 50,515 (as of 10/9/94)
>
>
> State Cases
> 1980 -- 64,240
> 1981 -- 65, 563
> 1982 --68,893
> 1983 -- 71,137
> 1984 -- 72,178
> 1985 -- 88,497
> 1986 -- 92,626
> 1987 -- 91,148
> 1988 -- 93,552
> 1989 -- 101,883
> 1990 -- 106,729
> 1991 -- 114,935
> 1992 -- 113,594
> 1993 -- 112,912
> 1994 -- 80,027 (as of 10/9/94)
>
>
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