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72 Cornell L. Rev. 641 (1986-1987)
Reality of Constitutional Tort Litigation

handle is hein.journals/clqv72 and id is 675 raw text is: THE REALITY OF CONSTITUTIONAL TORT LITIGATION Theodore Eisenbergt & Stewart Schwabtt TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Perceptions of Constitutional Tort Litigation ........... 644 A. Judicial Perceptions and Responses ................ 645 B. The Perceived Fiscal Drain on Local Governments . 650 C. The Effect on Individual Officials .................. 651 II. The Study's Methodology .............................. 652 A. The Central District of California as a Unit of Study 652 B. Identifying Constitutional Tort Cases .............. 653 C. Defining a Case ................................... 655 D. Sources of Data ................................... 657 1. National Published Statistics ................... 657 2. The Parallel Results Based on Administrative Office Data .................................... 657 3. Central District 1980-81 Data .................. 657 4. The Follow-up Attorney Study ................. 658 5. Central District 1975-76 Data .................. 658 III. The Number of Constitutional Tort Cases .............. 658 A. A Caveat on Prisoner Litigation ................... 659 B. The Administrative Office Classification System and General Uses of Its Case Filing Statistics ........... 660 t Visiting Professor of Law, Stanford University; Professor of Law, Cornell University. tt Associate Professor of Law, Cornell University. This research received generous financial support from the National Science Foundation, Grant no. SES-8510284, the American Bar Foundation, Cornell Law School, and Harvard Law School. The authors thank DanielJ. Meltzer and Samuel R. Gross for their comments on a draft of this article and the colleagues who commented on a draft of this paper at a Cornell Law School Faculty Seminar. We received able research assistance from Lisa Bodenstein-Golan, Mark Van Dorm Cloud, Bonnie M. Cohn, Susan Ephron, Nancy R. Gaines, Melanie B. Genkin, Victor Henderson, Craig Horowitz, Kenneth E. Kellner, Michele J. Martell, David Mason, Jessica Murray, Jean T. Pagliuca, Debra R. Puebla, Karen Reardon, David R. Sherbin, Randy Sklaver, and Laurie Taylor. We gratefully acknowledge the coopera- tion of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts for furnishing us with data on federal district court cases. Some results in this study were presented, in a more tentative form, in January 1986 to the torts section of the Association of American Law Schools, at the Association's convention in New Orleans. A preliminary, condensed ver- sion of this article appears in 3 CIVIL RIGHTS LITIGATION AND A-rrORNEY FEES HANDBOOK (J. Lobel & B. Wolvovitz eds. 1987).

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