Scope and Contents From the File: Arrangement: Chronological by court term, numerical by civil and criminal case number. Bar dockets summarize proceedings in civil and criminal cases. Information usually includes case number, names of plaintiff and defendant, names of attorneys, nature of the suit, and a statement or statements on the proceedings. In these dockets many cases were not carefully documented or not entered. See Civil Trial Dockets, Criminal Trial Dockets, District Court Journals; and Green River...