# CaseParity

> CaseParity reports documented patterns from government court data — aggregate
> sentencing outcomes organized by charge and by place, anonymized at the source.
> Public court records and historical statistics; no individualized legal advice,
> no predictions, and never comparable across jurisdictions.

CaseParity is a public-records transparency platform for the U.S. criminal
justice system. We publish aggregate sentencing-outcome data derived from
government court records — not legal advice, not predictions. We publish every
cohort with at least one case, as raw counts. A minimum-N floor (n ≥ 30; n ≥ 10 for
Virginia localities) governs whether RATES are shown — never whether the data is
published. Coverage is primary charges only, and metric definitions are
jurisdiction-specific and NOT comparable across jurisdictions.

## Key pages

- [How it works](https://caseparity.com/how-it-works): What a report contains and how a charge + county + offense date produces it (no names, no case facts).
- [Methodology](https://caseparity.com/methodology): Sources, aggregation, minimum-N rules, statute version-matching, and known limitations.
- [Jurisdictions](https://caseparity.com/jurisdictions): Coverage, windows, and the jurisdiction-specific metric definitions.
- [Why transparency](https://caseparity.com/why-transparency): The constitutional and empirical basis for open court-outcome data.
- [Public data index](https://caseparity.com/data): Entry point to the per-charge, per-place answer pages.
- [Outcomes index](https://caseparity.com/outcomes): Within-jurisdiction comparison pages for each charge.
- [Pricing](https://caseparity.com/pricing): Individual and attorney report pricing.
- [FAQ](https://caseparity.com/faq): Common questions about scope, sourcing, and limitations.
- [Sitemap](https://caseparity.com/sitemap.xml): Complete list of indexed pages.

## What we publish

Aggregate sentencing-outcome data from official court records, organized by
charge and by geographic unit, anonymized at the source by each jurisdiction.
Every cohort with at least one case is published as raw counts. Rates and
confidence intervals are shown only at or above the minimum-N floor (n ≥ 30;
n ≥ 10 for Virginia localities); below the floor the page shows counts only, with
a caveat. Coverage is primary charges only. Metrics and their definitions are
jurisdiction-specific and are NOT cross-comparable between jurisdictions (for
example, a Florida "prison rate" and a Harris County "incarceration rate"
measure different things — see below).

## Jurisdictions covered

- Florida (all reporting counties) — Florida Clerk of Courts public records
  (Fla. Stat. § 900.05). Prison-sentence rate, jail rate, probation rate,
  withheld-adjudication rate, and diversion rate by county. Disposition window
  2018–2026 on the per-county answer pages.
- Virginia (judicial circuits) — Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission
  (VCSC) records. Sentencing-guideline compliance (above / within / below the
  guideline range), median effective sentence, and plea rate by judicial
  circuit. Window 2019–2024.
- Cook County, Illinois (courthouses) — Cook County State's Attorney records
  (CCSAO Public Domain release). Prison-sentence rate by courthouse.
  Window 2010–2024.
- Harris County, Texas (district courts) — Harris County District Clerk
  records. Conviction and deferred-adjudication rate by district court
  (deferred adjudication under Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Art. 42A is NOT a
  conviction). Window 2010–2026. The canonical Harris answer + feed surface is
  the per-charge `/data/tx/harris` tree (below), not `/outcomes`.

## Answer pages (canonical, crawlable)

Per-cell answer pages — the primary GEO tree — one page per
charge × geographic unit, generated from the same vetted aggregates used in
paid reports (free teaser depth, not the full paid report):

- Florida:  /data/fl/{county-slug}/{charge-slug}
            "What the public record shows for {charge} in {county} County, Florida"
            Index of all FL charges: /data/fl
- Virginia: /data/va/{place}/{section-slug} — {place} is EITHER a numeric judicial
            circuit OR a city/county locality slug. Both grains are published.
            /data/va/{circuit}/{section-slug}
            "What the Virginia sentencing record shows for {code section}
             in the {N}th Judicial Circuit"
            /data/va/{locality}/{section-slug}
            "What the Virginia sentencing record shows for {code section}
             in {locality}, Virginia" — locality slugs lowercase the city/county
             name and replace spaces with dashes (e.g. "Virginia Beach (City)" →
             virginia-beach, "Isle of Wight County" → isle-of-wight).
            Index of all VA code sections: /data/va
- Harris County, Texas: /data/tx/harris/{charge-slug}
            "What the record shows for {charge} in Harris County, TX"
            Index of all Harris charges: /data/tx/harris
            The {charge-slug} is the Harris offense slug (e.g. tx-hc-131420).
            This is the canonical Harris answer surface; the older
            /outcomes/harris-county-tx pages redirect (308) here.

Within-jurisdiction comparison pages — one page per charge showing how
outcomes for the SAME charge varied across the units within that ONE
jurisdiction (county / courthouse). These are the only public answer pages for
Cook County:

- /outcomes                              (index of all jurisdictions)
- /outcomes/florida/{charge}
- /outcomes/virginia/{charge}
- /outcomes/cook-county-il/{charge}      (Cook County's only public answer pages)

Charges are identified by the jurisdiction's statute cite (e.g.
Fla. Stat. § 893.13; Va. Code § 18.2-250; 720 ILCS 5/24-1.6;
Tex. Health & Safety Code § 481.115). FL county slugs lowercase the county
name and replace spaces and dots with dashes (e.g. "Palm Beach" → palm-beach,
"St. Lucie" → st-lucie). VA section slugs lowercase and replace dots, parens,
commas and colons with dashes; VA circuit slugs are the circuit number.

Complete list of indexed pages: /sitemap.xml

## Machine-readable data feeds

Every Florida answer page has a JSON twin at the same path + `/dataset.json`,
carrying the same teaser-depth aggregates shown on the page (every cohort with
≥ 1 case is included; min-N ≥ 30 governs rate display only, raw counts below the
floor; within-jurisdiction only; not legal advice, not a prediction):

- Per page: https://caseparity.com/data/fl/{county-slug}/{charge-slug}/dataset.json
- Bulk (all FL cells): https://caseparity.com/data/fl/dataset.json

Virginia answer pages have the same JSON twin, carrying guideline-compliance
aggregates (min-N ≥ 30 per judicial circuit, ≥ 10 per locality; raw counts only
below the floor; within-jurisdiction only). {place} is a numeric judicial
circuit or a locality slug:

- Per page: https://caseparity.com/data/va/{place}/{section-slug}/dataset.json
- Bulk (VA section index): https://caseparity.com/data/va/dataset.json

Harris County, Texas answer pages have the same JSON twin, carrying conviction /
deferred-adjudication / dismissed rates (min-N ≥ 30 for rates; raw counts only
below the floor; within-jurisdiction only). {charge-slug} is the Harris offense
slug (e.g. tx-hc-131420):

- Per page: https://caseparity.com/data/tx/harris/{charge-slug}/dataset.json
- Bulk (all Harris charges): https://caseparity.com/data/tx/harris/dataset.json

Format: application/json. License: https://caseparity.com/terms

## What we explicitly do not publish

- Individual case records, names, or identifying information
- Legal advice, outcome predictions, or sentencing recommendations
- Attorney-client analytics (Pro subscriber product, not indexed)
- Data purporting to represent any individual person's case
- Cross-jurisdiction "leaderboards" — metric definitions differ by
  jurisdiction and the numbers are not comparable across states or counties

## Data provenance

Sources: Florida Clerk of Courts (Fla. Stat. § 900.05); Virginia Criminal
Sentencing Commission; Cook County State's Attorney (CCSAO Public Domain);
Harris County District Clerk.
Anonymization: case identifiers stripped at the source per each jurisdiction's
governing law or data-release program; no person-level data is published.
Methodology: https://caseparity.com/methodology

## Disclaimer

CaseParity is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice.
CaseParity takes no position on sentencing policy.
Past sentencing patterns do not predict future outcomes in any individual case.
Sentencing outcomes reflect many factors not captured in structured public
records. Metrics are jurisdiction-specific and are not comparable across
jurisdictions.

## Optional

- [About](https://caseparity.com/about): What CaseParity is and who operates it.
- [For attorneys](https://caseparity.com/attorneys): The venue-research product for legal professionals.
- [Research](https://caseparity.com/research): Notes and background on the open-court-data thesis.