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Public data and research

Explore the records behind the numbers. Each collection identifies its sources, dates, methods, and limits.

Data collections

  • NHTSA · Fatality Analysis Reporting System

    Fatal-crash explorer

    National and state fatal-crash trends, vehicle and pedestrian involvement, road function classes, and county tables. Includes source definitions, downloadable CSVs, and charts for reuse with credit.

  • NHTSA · Fatality Analysis Reporting System

    Motorcycle fatal-crash table

    Motorcyclist deaths by state and year, with helmet-use, time-of-day and single-vehicle or multi-vehicle counts from the same final FARS files.

  • Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation

    MDL Monitor

    Federal multidistrict litigation dockets ranked by pending civil actions. Read archived monthly editions, compare available reports, and download the sourced action counts.

  • Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · title-only categories

    MDL injury map

    Every pending MDL grouped by words in its official title, with explicit rules, unmatched titles, monthly CSVs, and links to related case hubs and injury guides.

  • Public litigation records

    Bellwether Scoreboard

    A dated register of sourced verdicts, settlements, rulings, and bankruptcies, grouped by litigation. Published outcomes do not predict any individual result.

Sources and corrections

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