Litigation & Tort Data
What happens after the injury in the civil system: court caseload statistics, tort filings, and insurance closed-claim data.
The quantitative record of court activity across Texas — and the rare source of litigation data at the state level rather than national. It tracks civil and tort filing trends, including personal injury and motor vehicle cases, broken down by district, county, and appellate courts.
The standard national reference for how civil disputes actually resolve. It documents that trials account for only about 3% of tort, contract, and property dispositions in state general jurisdiction courts, and that tort claims make up 61% of civil trials.
BJS detail on tort trial outcomes by case type (auto, medical malpractice, product liability), with comparisons across 1996, 2001, and 2005. It provides the award size distribution that puts headline verdicts in context: a median tort trial award around $24,000, with only about 4% of prevailing plaintiffs recovering over $1 million.
A cross state comparison of civil and tort caseloads maintained by the National Center for State Courts, with Texas general jurisdiction figures broken out. Useful for placing Texas litigation trends against other states.
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