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What actually happens in Virginia criminal court?

We answered it across more than 1.8 million cases filed in 2025 for four published research reports. Now we make the same data layer available — in the form your work needs.

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Felony drug possession sentences in Dickenson County run 7.6× the statewide above-guideline rate (36.6% vs 4.8%). The kind of outlier that decides cases — and that the four reports + the product layer surface daily.

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Same data layer behind four published research reports.

Methodology disclosed on every figure. Cited at virginiacourtfile.com/research.

1.8M+
cases filed in 2025
17,000+
attorneys indexed
134
Virginia courts
14
charge categories

Virginia criminal cases filed in 2025. Figures as of July 2026. Methodology