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US Court Records & Legal Opinions Scraper

Search US court records, case law opinions, and docket filings via the CourtListener API. Access millions of legal documents from federal and state courts including the Supreme Court, Circuit Courts, and District Courts.

Features

• Search opinions -- Find case law by keyword, judge, court, date range, and precedential status
• Search dockets -- Look up case filings by party name, case number, court, or date range
• Get case details -- Retrieve full opinion text, docket history, and associated documents for a specific case
• Boolean search -- Supports AND, OR, NOT operators, phrase search with quotes, and wildcards
• Full opinion text -- Optionally fetch the complete text of court opinions (requires free API token)
• Cursor-based pagination -- Efficiently retrieves large result sets

Input Parameters

Example Inputs

Search Supreme Court first amendment cases:

{
"mode":"opinions",
"searchQuery":"first amendment free speech",
"court":"scotus",
"status":"precedential",
"maxResults":25
}

Find dockets for a specific party:

{
"mode":"dockets",
"party":"Google",
"court":"ca9",
"dateFrom":"2023-01-01",
"maxResults":50
}

Get full details for a specific case:

{
"mode":"details",
"caseId":"2812209",
"apiToken":"YOUR_TOKEN_HERE"
}

Output Fields

Opinion Search Results

Docket Search Results

Use Cases

• Legal research -- Find relevant case law and precedent on any topic
• Litigation tracking -- Monitor dockets for specific parties or case numbers
• Compliance analysis -- Research regulatory rulings and enforcement actions
• Academic research -- Analyze judicial opinions, citation patterns, and court statistics
• Due diligence -- Check litigation history for companies and individuals

Data Source

Data is sourced from the CourtListener API (by Free Law Project), which indexes millions of opinions and dockets from US federal and state courts.

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