CourtListener Court Cases & Opinions Scraper

Extract US court cases, opinions and dockets by keyword, court and date, covering federal and state courts nationwide

20+ fields per record

US federal & state coverage

JSON / CSV / Excel output formats

Updated 2026-07-05

What you get

Search American case law and litigation records, then export a clean row per court case. Each record carries the case name, court, filing date, docket number, reporter citations, the deciding judges and the opinion text, or the full party and attorney lineup for a docket.

• caseName: the case title (for example Miranda v. Arizona)
• caseNameFull: the long-form case caption when available
• recordType: whether the row is an opinion or a docket
• court: the full court name (for example District Court, S.D. New York)
• courtId: the short court code (for example scotus, ca9, nysd)
• courtCitation: the court's citation abbreviation
• dateFiled: the date the case was filed or decided
• dateArgued: the date the case was argued, when recorded
• docketNumber: the court docket number
• citations: the reporter citations for the opinion (for example 384 U.S. 436)
• citedByCount: how many later cases cite this one
• precedentialStatus: whether the opinion is published or unpublished
• judge: the deciding judge or panel names
• natureOfSuit: the nature-of-suit classification
• snippet: an excerpt of the opinion text
• documentUrl: link to the source opinion document
• url: link to the full case page
• opinions*: every opinion in the cluster, each with its text snippet, document link, author and citation count
• judges*: resolved judge biographies with name, date of birth, political affiliation and schools
• assignedJudge*: the judge assigned to a docket
• parties*: every party named in a docket
• attorneys*: every attorney of record in a docket
• lawFirms*: the law firms representing parties in a docket
• documents*: the filed documents for a docket, each with a description and link
• observedAt: when this case was last seen by the scraper

*These fields only appear when withDetails is set to true.

Who is it for

Use case	Who benefits
Legal research on case law and precedent	Attorneys, paralegals and law students
Litigation and docket monitoring	Litigation teams and legal-ops analysts
Tracking a court, judge or party over time	Compliance and risk teams
Investigative and court reporting	Journalists and newsrooms
Building legal datasets and analytics	Legal-tech and data science teams

Frequently Asked Questions

Which courts and cases are covered?
Coverage spans US federal and state courts, including the Supreme Court, the federal circuit courts of appeals, district courts and many state appellate courts. You can search everything at once or narrow to a single court using its short code, such as scotus, ca9 or nysd.

How many cases can I collect in one run?
Set maxItems to any number you need. The scraper pages through the results automatically until it reaches your limit, so you can pull a handful of leading cases or thousands of dockets in one run.

Can I filter by court and date?
Yes. You can restrict results to one court and to a date range using a filed-after and filed-before date, and sort by relevance, newest, oldest or most cited.

What is the difference between opinions and dockets?
Opinions return decided case law with citations, the deciding judges and the opinion text. Dockets return the case timeline with every party, attorney, law firm and filed document, which is useful for tracking active litigation.

What happens to fields that a case does not have?
Fields that a particular case does not carry are returned as null rather than dropped, so every row keeps the same shape and is easy to load into a spreadsheet or database.

Export, API and AI agents (x402 + MCP)

Export the scraped data to JSON, CSV or Excel, pull it as a dataset through the Apify API, or wire it into your app with no code. This web scraper and data extractor also works for bulk data extraction and scheduled runs.

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