Florida court outcome data for legal content
Updated September 2026 · 2023-2025 data · 1,700,583 clerk-case records, 66 counties
If you write about Florida criminal charges — for a firm, an agency, or a newsroom — every number on this site is free to cite. This page explains what the figures are, how to attribute them, and how to get them in a form you can drop into a draft.
What you can cite today
Three examples, computed live from the current data. Each links to the page it comes from.
In 2025, Florida courts withheld adjudication in 20.4% of 545,666 resolved criminal cases, ranging from 38.3% for hit and run to 1.3% for drug trafficking.
Source: FloridaCourtFile, Adjudication Withheld in Florida, FDLE clerk-case data, 2025.Of 125,903 Florida traffic-offense cases resolved in 2025, 47.9% ended in a guilty finding, 33.0% had adjudication withheld, and 4.3% were dismissed.
Source: FloridaCourtFile, Traffic Offense in Florida, FDLE clerk-case data, 2025.Florida DUI cases resolved in 2025 ended in a guilty finding 91.5% of the time across 22,856 cases; 1.2% were dismissed.
Source: FloridaCourtFile, DUI in Florida, FDLE clerk-case data, 2025.Every charge page, county page, and sentencing page carries the same kind of figure with its denominator and time window stated. Browse charges, counties, or sentencing.
How to attribute
Name the site and the page, and keep the year. A link is a courtesy, not a condition — the figures are public-record statistics and stay free whether or not you link.
According to FloridaCourtFile's analysis of FDLE clerk-case records, [figure] of [charge] cases in [county or Florida] were [outcome] in [year].
Two things keep a citation accurate:
- Keep the denominator. Every rate here is a share of resolved cases in the stated window, not of arrests or filings. A dismissal rate quoted without that qualifier is a different number.
- Keep the date. The data refreshes monthly and figures move. A figure copied in July is a July figure; say so, or re-check the page before publishing.
The full method — what counts as dismissed, withheld, or guilty, and where the records come from — is on the methodology page.
The monthly data pack — early access
We are preparing a monthly pack for people who cite this data regularly: a spreadsheet of statewide and county outcome rates by charge for the current window, plus the same figures as ready-to-paste sentences with attribution, sent when the FDLE refresh lands each month. It is free, and it is for professionals only — content teams, agencies, attorneys, and journalists.
One email a month when the data changes. No defendant data, no case-level records, no selling of the list.
What this is not
It is not a legal directory, and it is not a way to advertise results. These are aggregate statistics about how cases ended in Florida courts. They describe a county or a charge, not any lawyer's performance, and they should not be presented as a prediction for a specific case.