US Case Law Scraper — Court Opinions & Dockets

Search and export millions of US court decisions with the US Case Law Scraper. Pull court opinions, dockets, and oral arguments from federal and state courts — including the Supreme Court, Circuit Courts of Appeals, and District Courts — and export clean, structured rows as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Built for legal research, litigation tracking, precedent analysis, academic study, journalism and compliance, this scraper turns free public court records into ready-to-use data.

What it does

• ⚖️ Full-text case search — search opinions by keyword, legal issue, party name or citation.
• 🏛️ Federal & state courts — from the Supreme Court and Courts of Appeals down to District and state courts.
• 📁 Opinions, dockets, oral arguments & judges — choose which record type to pull.
• 🎯 Powerful filters — by court, judge, filing date range and precedential status.
• 🔗 Citations & cite counts — capture official citations, neutral/Lexis cites and how often a case has been cited.
• 📝 Case detail — case name, docket number, court, filing date, nature of suit, judges, posture, syllabus and a text snippet.
• 📤 Export anywhere — JSON, CSV or Excel, or straight into Sheets, a database or your research tool.

Example output

{
  "id": "10589788",
  "caseName": "Curtin v. United Trademark Holdings, Inc.",
  "court": "Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit",
  "courtId": "cafc",
  "docketNumber": "23-2140",
  "dateFiled": "2025-05-22",
  "status": "Published",
  "citeCount": 3,
  "natureOfSuit": null,
  "snippet": "Case: 23-2140  Document: 74  Page: 1  Filed: 05/22/2025 ...",
  "url": "https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/10589788/curtin-v-united-trademark-holdings/"
}

How to use it

1. Enter one or more search terms — a legal issue (qualified immunity), a party name, or a citation.
2. Pick a result type — court opinions, dockets, oral arguments or judges.
3. Optionally filter by court (e.g. scotus, ca9, dcd), judge, date range or precedential status, and choose a sort order.
4. Set Max cases and run. Download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Input fields

Field	Description
Search terms	Free-text legal searches — issue, party name or citation.
Result type	Court opinions, dockets, oral arguments, or judges.
Court	Court code — scotus, ca9, dcd, etc. Blank = all courts.
Judge	Filter by judge name.
Filed after / before	Date range (YYYY-MM-DD).
Precedential status	Published, Unpublished, Errata, and more.
Sort order	Relevance, newest, oldest, or most cited.
Max cases	Maximum number of results (0 = no limit).

Output fields

id, caseName, caseNameFull, court, courtId, jurisdiction, docketNumber, dateFiled, dateArgued, status, citations, neutralCite, lexisCite, citeCount, judges, panel, natureOfSuit, posture, proceduralHistory, syllabus, snippet, opinionType, downloadUrl, url, source.

Popular use cases

• Legal research — find on-point precedent by issue, court and date.
• Litigation & docket tracking — monitor new filings and case activity.
• Precedent & citation analysis — rank cases by how often they are cited.
• Academic & empirical legal studies — build datasets across courts and years.
• Legal journalism — surface notable rulings and track court trends.
• Compliance & policy monitoring — follow decisions in a practice area.

FAQ

Do I need an account or key? No. Set your search and filters and run — everything needed is built in.

Which courts are covered? A very broad set of US federal and state courts, from the Supreme Court and Circuit Courts of Appeals to District and state courts.

Can I get the full opinion text? Each result includes a text snippet plus a link and a download URL for the full document where available.

How do court codes work? Use the short court code in the Court field — for example scotus for the Supreme Court, ca9 for the Ninth Circuit, or dcd for the DC District Court. Leave it blank to search all courts.

Can I export to Excel or Google Sheets? Yes — results download as JSON, CSV or Excel and integrate with Sheets, databases and research tools.

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Structured US case law — opinions, dockets and oral arguments across federal and state courts — searchable, filterable and exported clean.