VirginiaCourtFile · Intelligence
What actually happens in Virginia criminal court?
We answered it across 1,681,767 cases resolved in 2025 for four published research reports. Now we make the same data layer available — in the form your work needs.
For a defender, that's your peer-rank + venue floors. For a journalist, the numbers nobody else surfaces. For a data platform, the Virginia coverage your team can't backfill. Pick a path below.
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.
Choose your path.
Annual Practice Review
Your reduction rate vs statewide. Your peer percentile. Modal pleas in your venues. Officer + prosecutor patterns. Delivered as a polished year-in-review PDF.
- Your record vs 16,943 statewide peers
- Modal plea floors in every venue you work
- Officer + prosecutor patterns from your caseload
- VCSC sentencing benchmarks where you appear
Custom Intel Report
Need outcome data on a specific case, venue, officer, or charge? Custom research delivered as a defensible memo.
- Venue + charge × jurisdiction benchmark
- Officer + prosecutor history when known
- Sentencing scenarios + VCSC outlier callouts
- Cited methodology footer
Data Licensing
Raw + aggregate VA criminal data for legal-tech, AI training, and policy research. Weekly refresh, multi-year contracts, indemnified.
- 1.68M case-level records (Parquet, S3 delivery)
- Attorney + officer + prosecutor entity tables
- VCSC + DMV + court-speed aggregates
- Methodology + provenance documentation
Research Partnership
Cited access to the data layer and methodology for verifiable reporting. Co-author opportunities. The same data behind the published reports — for your story.
- Custom data pulls for active stories
- Methodology disclosure + fact-check support
- Quarterly dispatches on data trends
- Co-authoring on aligned research
Academic researcher? Request dataset access →
The standing
Same data layer behind four published research reports.
Methodology disclosed on every figure. Cited at virginiacourtfile.com/research.
- Annual Report 2025 — statewide criminal-outcomes baseline
- DWI 2025 YoY — reduction-rate movement, statewide
- Q1 2026 Circuit Court YoY — felony case-flow movement
- Virginia Prosecutorial Accountability 2025 — CA-office posture across Virginia