Justia Case Law Scraper
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from $23.99 / 1,000 result items
Justia Case Law Scraper
Scrapes Justia case law by court and year range. Returns full opinion text, docket number, date, court, and citation for each case.
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Justia Case Law Scraper
Scrape Justia case law from any US Supreme Court or federal appellate court, up to a million cases per run. Each case comes with its full text, docket number, date, court, and citation. No login or API key. Export to CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML.
Justia's case law database is public, but manually copying decisions is slow and error-prone. This Actor reads the public case pages directly, filtered by court and year range, and returns each match in one fixed schema. It works for the US Supreme Court and all eleven federal circuit courts of appeals.
| Who uses it | What they scrape Justia for |
|---|---|
| Legal researchers | Which precedents a circuit court relied on in a given year |
| Law firm associates | Building a private database of decisions for a practice area |
| Legal tech startups | Training citation or outcome prediction models on real opinions |
| Journalists | Tracking how a court's rulings evolved across a term |
What it does
This Actor collects Justia case law by direct URL or by court and year filters, and returns each case as a flat row.
- 🔗 Start URL mode: paste one case page or one listing page and collect every case linked from it.
- ⚖️ Court filter: pick the US Supreme Court or any of the eleven federal circuit courts of appeals.
- 📅 Year range: set a start and end year to limit results to decisions filed in that window.
- 📦 Bulk export: up to one million cases per run, delivered as CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML.
Results export to CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML, or straight from the API.
What you can do with Justia data
📚 Build a precedent library.
A law firm associate scrapes all Fifth Circuit decisions from 2020 to 2024 and imports them into a private search tool for motion practice.
📈 Track judicial trends.
A legal analytics startup collects SCOTUS opinions by year to measure how often the Court reverses lower courts.
🧠 Train legal AI.
A machine learning team scrapes thousands of circuit court opinions to fine-tune a model that predicts case outcomes.
📰 Investigate rulings.
A journalist pulls every Ninth Circuit immigration decision from a single year to find patterns in asylum denials.
Why choose this scraper
| What you get | |
|---|---|
| No API key | Justia has no official case law API, so this reads the public pages directly. |
| Fixed schema | Every case returns the same flat fields, ready for a database or spreadsheet. |
| Federal coverage | All twelve federal courts, from SCOTUS to the Eleventh Circuit. |
| Year filtering | Narrow results to a single term or a decade of decisions. |
How it compares
This Actor focuses on case law opinions, while the competitors below target attorney profiles and lawyer directory listings.
| Feature | ParseForge | Justia Scraper with Emails & Socials | Justia Lawyer Directory Scraper |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full case opinion text | Yes | Not listed | Not listed |
| Docket number and citation | Yes | Not listed | Not listed |
| Court and year filters | Yes | Not listed | Not listed |
| Attorney email and social enrichment | Not listed | Yes | Not listed |
| Lawyer directory by practice area | Not listed | Not listed | Yes |
Configure the run
Drive the Actor from a direct Justia URL, or leave it empty and set a court plus a year range. Filters run as each case is read, so only matches reach your dataset. The Input tab lists every parameter.
Pricing
Pay-per-result: $0.03199 per result collected. You pay only for the results written to your dataset.
| Results collected | Approximate cost |
|---|---|
| 100 results | $3.20 |
| 1,000 results | $31.99 |
| 10,000 results | $319.90 |
New Apify accounts start with $5 in free credit.
Free users
Free-plan runs return up to 10 results as a preview. Upgrade your Apify plan to collect up to 1,000,000 results per run.
Run it
- Create a free Apify account with $5 in credit.
- Open the Justia Case Law Scraper.
- Set your inputs and any filters, then click Start.
- Export the results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML from the Dataset tab.
Run it programmatically through the Apify API (run-sync-get-dataset-items) or the ApifyClient for JavaScript and Python.
Use with AI agents (MCP)
Give an AI agent live access to Justia through the Model Context Protocol. Add the Actor to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client:
Then prompt it in plain language to run the scraper and read back the results.
Troubleshooting
Why am I getting no results?
Check your year range. If Year From is later than Year To, or the court has no decisions in that window, the Actor returns nothing. Also confirm the court selection matches your intent.
The run stops after a few cases.
Lower Max Items or increase the Actor's memory in the run settings. Large opinions can consume memory, and the Actor stops when it hits the limit.
Some cases are missing from the output.
Justia occasionally changes page layouts. If a case page fails to parse, the Actor skips it and logs a warning. Re-run with a narrower filter or report the URL.
The Start URL returns an error.
Make sure the URL points to a Justia case page or listing page, not a search results page. If it is a listing page, it must contain links to individual cases.
FAQ
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Which courts can I scrape? | The US Supreme Court and the eleven federal circuit courts of appeals, First through Eleventh. State courts are not included. |
| Can I scrape a single case? | Yes. Paste the case page URL into Start URL and set Max Items to 1. The Actor returns that case as one row. |
| What does a case row include? | The full opinion text, docket number, decision date, court name, and citation. The exact fields are shown in the sample output below. |
| Is there a rate limit? | The Actor respects Justia's robots.txt and throttles requests automatically. You can raise the max items up to one million per run. |
| Do I need a Justia account? | No. The Actor reads public pages without login or API key. |
| Can I filter by legal topic? | Not directly. Use the court and year filters, then filter the exported data by keywords in the opinion text. |
| What output formats are supported? | CSV, JSON, Excel, and XML. Choose the format in the Actor's output settings. |
| How do I scrape a listing page? | Paste the listing URL into Start URL. The Actor follows every case link on that page and collects each one. |
| Can I schedule recurring runs? | Yes. Use Apify's scheduler to run the Actor daily or weekly, for example to collect newly published decisions. |
| What if a case page is missing a field? | The field is left empty in that row. The schema stays the same for every case, so your dataset remains consistent. |
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🆘 Need help? Email parseforge@protonmail.com with your run ID, your input, and what you expected.
⚠️ Disclaimer. This Actor is unofficial and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Justia, Inc. It collects only publicly available data. You are responsible for using the collected data in compliance with the source's terms of service and applicable data-protection laws, including GDPR, CCPA, and PIPL. Do not use it to collect personal data unlawfully.
