Other Federal Statutes

By claim type

• Other statutory actions

  327,662 cases · 56,319 reached a judgment
  48.3%

  plaintiff win
• Environmental matters

  34,267 cases · 9,531 reached a judgment
  46.5%

  plaintiff win
• Antitrust

  25,671 cases · 3,899 reached a judgment
  25.2%

  plaintiff win
• Interstate commerce

  24,247 cases · 4,236 reached a judgment
  69.9%

  plaintiff win
• Freedom of Information Act of 1974

  14,997 cases · 4,097 reached a judgment
  8.4%

  plaintiff win
• Cable/Satellite TV

  14,305 cases · 4,921 reached a judgment
  92.1%

  plaintiff win
• Constitutionality of state statutes

  11,200 cases · 3,078 reached a judgment
  22.9%

  plaintiff win
• Agricultural acts

  10,936 cases · 3,263 reached a judgment
  69.1%

  plaintiff win
• Arbitration

  7,054 cases · 3,787 reached a judgment
  88%

  plaintiff win
• Administrative procedure act / review or appeal of agency decision

  6,221 cases · 1,072 reached a judgment
  15%

  plaintiff win
• Other

  1,419 cases · 171 reached a judgment
  41.5%

  plaintiff win
• Customer challenge 12 USC 3410

  544 cases · 111 reached a judgment
  12.6%

  plaintiff win
• Economic Stabilization Act

  256 cases · 75 reached a judgment
  32%

  plaintiff win
• State re-appointment

  246 cases · 67 reached a judgment
  22.4%

  plaintiff win
• Selective service

  194 cases · 57 reached a judgment
  35.1%

  plaintiff win
• Energy Allocation Act

  166 cases · 56 reached a judgment
  48.2%

  plaintiff win
• Appeal of fee - equal access to justice

  139 cases · 41 reached a judgment
  14.6%

  plaintiff win
• Domestic relations

  30 cases · — reached a judgment
  small sample
• (Bankruptcy-related; appears in data, not in AO cover sheet)

  23 cases · 10 reached a judgment
  small sample
• Local jurisdictional appeal

  22 cases · — reached a judgment
  small sample
• Antitrust (appeals)

  13 cases · 1 reached a judgment
  small sample
• Probate

  2 cases · 1 reached a judgment
  small sample

Source: FJC Integrated Database (public domain), via CourtListener — federal civil cases filed and terminated, 1988–present. Figures are descriptive statistics about how cases of a given type have closed in a given court. They describe the historical record — not a prediction or assessment of any specific case. Not legal advice.