How many civil cases has Donald Trump been a party to and how many were resolved?

1. No single number in current reporting — trackers, not totals

Specialized litigation trackers and master calendars maintained by outlets such as Just Security and Lawfare document dozens of civil matters tied to Trump’s presidency and private business activities, but they are presented as lists or tables by case — not as a single aggregate count of “cases he has been a party to” or “resolved” cases — and the supplied pages do not publish a consolidated total ^{[1] [2] [3]}.

2. High‑profile civil items the sources highlight

The supplied reporting highlights several prominent civil actions: the New York Attorney General’s civil fraud case that resulted in a monetary judgment later overturned on appeal; defamation, copyright and other suits Trump has filed or faced (for instance the Woodward/Simon & Schuster litigation and the dismissed Clinton‑era lawsuit sanctions) — these are reported individually, not as part of a summed inventory in the material you provided ^{[4] [5] [6]}.

3. How outlets present “resolved” status differs

“Resolved” is used variably: appellate reversals, dismissals, settlements, sanctions and final judgments are all treated as resolutions in different stories. For example, the New York appeals court’s reversal of the $464 million judgment is presented as a major resolution, while other pieces note dismissals or settlements in separate civil suits ^{[4] [6]}. The trackers show many matters still “pending,” which complicates any effort to count resolved cases from these sources alone ^{[1] [2]}.

4. Criminal cases and civil cases are often reported together — be careful counting

Several summaries in the supplied results mix criminal and civil litigation status (for example, AP and WABE overviews of “legal cases against Trump” cover both civil suits and criminal indictments). Any attempt to sum civil cases must separate those categories; the present sources repeatedly treat them together in status roundups, which risks double‑counting or conflating different legal standards ^{[7] [8]}.

5. What investigative series and compendia show — breadth, not exhaustive totals

Longform investigations and compendia (e.g., Reuters’ mapping of targets of retribution) demonstrate breadth — hundreds of targets or actions in related contexts — but they do not produce a verified numeric total of civil lawsuits naming Trump as a party in the supplied excerpts. Reuters’ project documents at least 470 “targets” of administration actions, but that is a different metric and not a count of civil cases against or by Trump as a litigant ^[9].

6. Why a reliable single tally is hard to produce from these sources

Trackers update dynamically; appeals, reversals and new filings change counts; some materials count suits filed while Trump was in office differently from suits filed while he was a private citizen; and sources use different cutoff dates. The supplied items include ongoing appellate litigation, recent reversals and dismissals and do not present a reconciled final number ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}.

7. What you can do next to get a concrete number

To produce a defensible total you need a single, up‑to‑date inventory: combine case lists from litigation trackers (Just Security, Lawfare) with court dockets (federal and state) and then classify each entry as “civil” vs. “criminal” and “resolved” vs. “pending.” The supplied sources are a starting place — they provide case-level entries and status notes — but they do not themselves deliver the consolidated tally you asked for ^{[1] [2] [3]}.

Limitations and competing perspectives: the supplied reporting is explicit about several high‑profile resolutions (for example the New York appeals reversal reported in a congressional statement) and notes many unresolved appeals and pending matters; but available sources do not offer the singular numeric answer you requested and caution that counts vary by methodology and cut‑off date ^{[4] [3]}.