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Court Records Scraper: Case Law & Dockets

Court Records Scraper: Case Law & Dockets

Search US federal and state court records from CourtListener: case law opinions and court dockets by keyword, party, court and date. Get case name, court, dates, citation, citation count, judge, docket number and links. No API key.

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Search US federal and state court records - published case law and court dockets - without a Westlaw or PACER bill. Built on CourtListener (by the non-profit Free Law Project), credited as the source. No API key, no login, no browser.

Two record types

Case law (opinions) - published court decisions. One row per case:

  • case name, court, jurisdiction
  • date filed and date argued
  • citation, neutral citation, and how many times the case has been cited (a strong signal of importance)
  • precedential status, docket number, judge, nature of suit
  • a text snippet and links to the opinion and its document

Dockets (filings) - court case records. One row per docket:

  • case name, court, docket number
  • date filed and date terminated
  • assigned judge, nature of suit / cause, bankruptcy chapter
  • a link to the full docket

Search and filter

{
"queries": ["fair use copyright"],
"recordType": "opinions",
"sortBy": "most_cited"
}
  • queries - keywords, a party or company name, or a case name (one search per line)
  • courts - limit to specific courts by ID ("scotus" Supreme Court, "cafc" Federal Circuit, "ca9" 9th Circuit, "dcd" DC District)
  • filedAfter / filedBefore - date range
  • sortBy - best match, newest, oldest, or most cited

Who uses this

  • Law firms and paralegals: research case law on an issue and pull dockets by party.
  • Companies: check litigation exposure and run due diligence on partners, suppliers and competitors by name.
  • Legal researchers and journalists: track cases and find the most-cited authorities on a topic.
  • Law schools and students: study case law and citation patterns with structured data.

Pricing

A small fee per record. Searches that match nothing are free note rows, and the first 2 rows of every run are free.

Notes

  • Source: CourtListener / Free Law Project, a public database of US court opinions and dockets. Coverage is strongest for appellate and federal courts; docket coverage comes from the RECAP archive of PACER.
  • This returns the metadata and links for each record; full opinion text is linked from each row.