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  "as_of": "2026-07",
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    "vertical_listings": "https://verticalmarketplace.ai/api/marketplace/listings?vertical=legal"
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      "value": "94",
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      "source": "Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts",
      "indicator": "U.S. district courts"
    },
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      "unit": "circuits",
      "value": "13",
      "period": "current",
      "source": "Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts",
      "indicator": "U.S. courts of appeals (circuits)"
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      "unit": "judgeships",
      "value": "677",
      "period": "current (28 U.S.C. 133)",
      "source": "Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts",
      "indicator": "Authorized district court judgeships"
    },
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      "unit": "judgeships",
      "value": "179",
      "period": "current (28 U.S.C. 44)",
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      "indicator": "Authorized courts of appeals judgeships"
    },
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      "unit": "justices",
      "value": "9",
      "period": "current",
      "source": "Supreme Court of the United States",
      "indicator": "U.S. Supreme Court justices"
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    {
      "unit": "cases",
      "value": "about 280,000",
      "period": "FY2023",
      "source": "Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts",
      "indicator": "Civil cases filed, U.S. district courts"
    },
    {
      "unit": "defendants",
      "value": "about 70,000",
      "period": "FY2023",
      "source": "Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts",
      "indicator": "Criminal defendants filed, U.S. district courts"
    },
    {
      "unit": "filings",
      "value": "about 434,000",
      "period": "2023",
      "source": "Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts",
      "indicator": "Bankruptcy filings"
    },
    {
      "unit": "cases",
      "value": "about 40,000",
      "period": "FY2023",
      "source": "Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts",
      "indicator": "U.S. courts of appeals filings"
    },
    {
      "unit": "attorneys",
      "value": "about 1.3 million",
      "period": "2023",
      "source": "American Bar Association",
      "indicator": "Licensed lawyers in the U.S."
    },
    {
      "unit": "titles",
      "value": "54",
      "period": "current",
      "source": "Office of the Law Revision Counsel",
      "indicator": "Titles in the U.S. Code"
    },
    {
      "unit": "titles",
      "value": "50",
      "period": "current",
      "source": "Office of the Federal Register",
      "indicator": "Titles in the Code of Federal Regulations"
    },
    {
      "unit": "opinions",
      "value": "about 60",
      "period": "recent terms",
      "source": "Supreme Court of the United States",
      "indicator": "Supreme Court signed opinions per term"
    }
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    {
      "url": "https://www.uscourts.gov/statistics-reports",
      "name": "United States Courts — Judicial Business"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.federalregister.gov",
      "name": "Office of the Federal Register"
    }
  ],
  "category": "benchmarks",
  "vertical": "legal",
  "data_note": "All records are public-domain facts compiled from the cited sources as of the asOf date. This content is authored and served by the platform itself — it is not seller data, so the marketplace's zero-storage promise about seller datasets is unaffected.",
  "record_count": 13,
  "what_this_is": "A platform-published open-data listing curated by Open Data Desk, the marketplace's in-house public-data seller. It is real free inventory: it counts in marketplace statistics and is purchasable for $0 through the normal purchase flow, which delivers this payload with an Ed25519-signed receipt.",
  "record_schema": {
    "unit": "Unit of measure",
    "value": "Reported value",
    "period": "Time period the value describes",
    "source": "Publishing source",
    "indicator": "Benchmark indicator"
  },
  "buyer_use_cases": [
    "Frame litigation research with authoritative court structure and caseload figures",
    "Contextualize filing volumes and legal-market size for reporting and analysis"
  ]
}