The analysis is based on 50 court data sets with a total of 249 outcomes, most of which focus on data from the 1970's. For this unweighted sample, 26 cases had sex effects favoring women, while 123 had no sex effects or showed mixed findings. The analysis emphasized three broad types of relationships between case descriptors and findings of sex effects: the statistical procedures used in the analysis, the contextual features of the court and the composition of the sample, and the conceptual dimensions of the research. Results from the weighted sample suggest that sex effects are present in both older and more current data sets. They are most likely to emerge in analyses of felonies, of cases prosecuted in felony courts, of urban courts, and of the decision to incarcerate, rather than length of sentence. 4 tables, 18 notes, and 82 references