CourtListener Feature Guide
We have compiled a list of our ever-expanding features and capabilities in CourtListener. We hope librarians, researchers, educators, and other users find this resource helpful.
New!
As of July 31, transcripts of oral arguments are available. Learn more below.
Advanced Search
CourtListener allows you to build complex searches that can be run across our entire corpus.
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Advanced query techniques and operators support highly advanced Boolean queries.
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Relative date queries can be used to keep your searches and alerts dynamically up to date.
Case Law
This is our collection of legal decisions. Courtlistener has one of the most comprehensive collections of American Legal Jurisprudence on the Internet.
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Opinion Alerts allow users to be notified when new opinions match their search terms and filters.
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Notes can be added to opinions.
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Citation Search lets you look at all the opinions that cite an opinion you're interested in and then filter those results so that you only see case law citing certain opinions from particular jurisdictions, dates, keywords, etc.
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Citation Alerts make it possible to keep up with citations to a case of interest.
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Parenthetical summaries of cases, written by judges, are available for many opinions.
RECAP Suite
The RECAP Archive in CourtListener is the biggest open collection of federal court data on the internet.
About | Blog | Data Coverage | Try it Out
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RECAP Extension, used by over 30,000 people, is a private and secure way to contribute your PACER purchases to CourtListener and to freely access anything somebody else has added to the archive.
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Docket Alerts allow users to be notified when there is an update to a particular docket. We send 10-20k docket alerts per day.
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RECAP Search Alerts allow users to follow topics, people, organizations, types of cases—anything you can search for, you can monitor.
Blog | Demo Video | Help Page
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RSS Feeds are available for dockets and RECAP search if you prefer to receive your updates via RSS rather than email.
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Pray and Pay is a system so you can "Pray" for PACER documents you want, and others can grant those prayers by "Paying" for them on your behalf.
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Tags allow you to organize and describe the docket.
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Notes can be added to RECAP dockets and documents.
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@recap.email is a better version of your PACER notification emails. Your emails become more readable and searchable, with quick access to free RECAP content. Any filings linked in your PACER alerts are automatically added to RECAP.
Oral Arguments
The biggest collection of oral argument audio on the internet.
About | Data Coverage | Try it Out
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Podcasts allow you to subscribe to oral argument audio as it is published by a court.
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Notes can be added to oral arguments.
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Transcripts are available for oral argument audio, allowing you to search, set alerts, and even follow along line-by-line.
Judges
Information about thousands of judges from federal and state courts.
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Financial Disclosures is the biggest database of judicial disclosures ever made.
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Judge Portraits is an open collection of meticulously edited and organized photos of judges that can be dropped into websites or other applications.
Data Services
Data services on CourtListener include APIs, Webhooks, and Bulk Legal Data.
