Comprehensive Courts of Appeals Database

The Comprehensive Courts of Appeals Database (CCAD) provides a machine-coded dataset on decisions issued by the U.S. Courts of Appeals. The database contains information on every published opinion issued by the circuit courts between 1892 and 2025.

Click here to read a paper that describes the construction and validation of the dataset.

The data, codebook, and documentation can be accessed by clicking on the menu bar at the top of the page.