Litigation analytics

JPML Dashboard

Shows MDL activity, month-over-month changes, long-term trends, and related docket data.

Top 10 Active MDLs

MDL	District	Title	Count

Top 10 Districts by Pending Cases

Ranked by pending cases. Click a row to see the MDLs below.

#	District	Pending	Terminated	Total

District MDLs

MDL	Title	Terminated Count	Pending Count	Total Count

New MDLs

MDL	District	Title	Count

Removed MDLs

MDL	District	Title	Prior Count

Reappeared MDLs

MDL	District	Title	Fell Off	Reappeared	Current Count

Start Month: End Month:

Reappeared MDLs are excluded from the district rankings below.

Top 10 Pending Count Increase

#	District	Current	Prior	Δ	% Δ

Top 10 Total Count Increase

#	District	Current	Prior	Δ	% Δ

Top 10 MDL Pending Count Increase

MDL	Title	Current	Prior	Δ	% Δ

Top 10 MDL Total Count Increase

MDL	Title	Current	Prior	Δ	% Δ

Case Volume Over Time

Monthly claims counts and MDL counts with a 3-month moving average for pending claims.

Key Summaries

Top Judges by Active MDLs

Judge	District	Active	Not Active	Total

Active = Pending > 0 in selected end month. Total = all MDLs since data begins.

Most Active MDLs (Pending / Total)

MDL	Title	Pending	Total	Pend %

MDLs with ≥50 total actions; ranked by pending share.

What changed month over month?

Top District Contributors

District	Δ Pending	% Share

Top MDL Contributors

MDL	Title	Δ Pending	% Share

Pending Case Forecast

Dashed line = linear regression over all available JPML monthly data, projected 6 months ahead. Pink bars show the historical LOESS trend; orange bars are regression projections; shaded band = 95% prediction interval.

Trend Label Definitions

Labels are self-relative — each MDL is measured against its own average caseload, so a large MDL must change proportionally more to be flagged as rapidly moving.

TREND DIRECTION

⬆ Rapidly Rising Monthly slope > +10% of the MDL's own average — an unusually fast acceleration. ↑ Rising Monthly slope between +3% and +10% — steady, notable growth. → Stable Monthly slope within ±3% — no meaningful directional change. ↓ Declining Monthly slope between −3% and −10% — steady, notable decrease. ⬇ Rapidly Declining Monthly slope < −10% of the MDL's own average — an unusually fast contraction.

ACCELERATION (ACCEL COLUMN)

↗ Accel. The rate of change is speeding up — second half of the window moved faster than the first. A rising MDL getting faster, or a declining MDL accelerating downward. ~ Steady The rate of change is consistent throughout the window — no meaningful difference between early and recent months. ↘ Decel. The rate of change is slowing down — second half of the window moved slower than the first. A declining MDL may be stabilizing; a rising one may be peaking.

Top 10 Rising MDLs

Strongest upward trend over last 12 months. Accel shows whether the rate of change is itself speeding up or slowing. R² = model reliability.

MDL	Title	Current	Trend	Accel	±/mo	6-mo Δ	R²

Top 10 Declining MDLs

Strongest downward trend over last 12 months. Accel shows whether the rate of decline is speeding up or easing.

MDL	Title	Current	Trend	Accel	±/mo	6-mo Δ	R²

Anomalous Months

Months where a single MDL's pending count deviated more than 2 standard errors from its own regression line — statistically out-of-character spikes or drops that may signal a mass filing event, bellwether trial, settlement wave, or data artifact. Sorted by magnitude of deviation. Only 1 worst month shown per MDL.

MDL	Title	Month	Actual	Expected	Dev %	Type

District Momentum

Monthly trend slope for the most-moving districts over the last 12 months. Green = growing, red = declining.

Court Docket Data via CourtListener

Judge assignments and lead plaintiff law firms sourced from the free CourtListener public API (Free Law Project) — matched by MDL docket number to JPML records. Firm data is available for MDLs indexed in the RECAP archive. Click any MDL number to open its full docket on CourtListener.

MDL	Title	Pending	Judge	Lead Plaintiff Firms

Defendant Exposure Tracker

Litigation category risk scores — last 12 months

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Settlement Proximity Signals

MDLs with declining caseloads and mature age — highest scores first

MDL	Title	Pending	Age	Momentum	Accel.	Proximity Score

Judicial Assignment Analysis

Judges ranked by active MDL case load — top 25

Judge	District	Active MDLs	Resolved	Total MDLs	Avg Duration	Avg Pending/MDL

JPML Monthly Reports

Monthly pending docket statistics published by the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. These PDFs are the primary input — parsed and stored as structured JSON to power every chart and table on this dashboard.

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External Data Sources

Public sources used to add context to the dashboard.

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CourtListener Free Law Project

Public API with MDL docket metadata by docket number, including judge assignments, lead plaintiff firms, filing dates, and docket URLs. Powers the Court Docket Data card on the Forecasting tab. Refresh with python scripts/fetch_courtlistener.py --force.

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RECAP Archive Free Law Project

Crowd-sourced mirror of PACER federal court documents. CourtListener's firm and attorney data comes from RECAP, so MDLs that appear there usually have richer firm and party detail.

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JPML Official Site U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation

Primary source for MDL statistics. Publishes monthly pending docket PDFs, transfer orders, and docket listings. The PDFs above are downloaded directly from this site.