Personal injury (federal) duration statistics, by court
Personal injury (federal) — federal personal-injury suits — take a median of 341 days from filing to resolution, based on 218,613 real cases in the public federal court record. Most resolve between 160 days and 2.7 years — full statistics, disposition mix, and district breakdown below.
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Filing to termination · 218,613 cases · median 341 days
How personal injury lawsuit cases end
Of 158,015 resolved cases — the observed record, not a prediction of any one case.
Personal injury (federal) duration by court
Median time to resolution in the districts with the most personal injury lawsuit cases.
| District | Cases | Median | Slowest 10% |
|---|---|---|---|
| S.D. Fla. | 11,207 | 208d | 1.3 yr |
| S.D. Tex. | 9,443 | 1.0 yr | 2.1 yr |
| E.D. La. | 8,235 | 313d | 2.1 yr |
| D.N.J. | 7,843 | 1.1 yr | 2.8 yr |
| E.D. Pa. | 7,834 | 242d | 1.8 yr |
| C.D. Cal. | 7,256 | 224d | 1.8 yr |
| S.D.N.Y. | 7,146 | 358d | 3.0 yr |
| E.D.N.Y. | 7,091 | 1.0 yr | 3.3 yr |
| N.D. Ga. | 6,601 | 306d | 2.1 yr |
| M.D. Fla. | 6,238 | 286d | 1.8 yr |
| N.D. Ill. | 5,630 | 1.0 yr | 3.1 yr |
| N.D. Tex. | 4,886 | 281d | 1.6 yr |
| D. Md. | 4,459 | 294d | 2.4 yr |
| W.D. Tex. | 4,422 | 1.0 yr | 2.4 yr |
| E.D. Mo. | 4,194 | 60d | 1.6 yr |
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Tertius, "Personal injury (federal): how long federal cases take, and how they end" (2026). Analysis of Federal Judicial Center Integrated Data Base records, 9.1M U.S. federal civil cases. https://usetertius.com/benchmarks/personal-injury
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Source: data/fjc/civil.parquet (Federal Judicial Center), cleaned by Tertius · model tertius-acta-6. Durations are filing to termination for U.S. federal civil cases. This is observed historical data, not a prediction of any specific case, and not legal advice. Tertius forecasts timing and disposition, never merits or damages.