1.1. The U.S. courts of appeals : an introduction
1.2. The characteristics of cases decided by the courts of appeals
1.3. The judges
1.4. Litigants in the U.S. courts of appeals
1.5. The appeals court database
2.1. Creating statistical datasets from portable files
2.2. Sampling and weighting the cases
2.3. Recoding variables and generating cross tabulations
2.4. Changing the unit of analysis
2.5. Converting the data into another format
2.6. Merging the appeals court database with the judge background database
2.7. Generating career scores for appellate judges.