records-law
CourtListener / RECAP
A free archive of US case law, court documents gathered from PACER through the RECAP project, and oral-argument audio. Its REST search API works without a key (a token raises rate limits), and our search queries it directly. The first stop for tracking down American court records at no cost.
Warum es nützlich ist & wie es funktioniert
CourtListener is the largest free source of US case law and federal court documents: its RECAP archive collects filings that would otherwise require paid PACER access and makes them freely available once any user retrieves them. You can search across opinions, dockets, and oral-argument audio by keyword, citation, court, judge, or date. Echo queries its API directly, so results from millions of opinions and federal court records surface alongside your other searches.
Was drinsteckt
Over 10 million court opinions from federal and state courts, alongside tens of millions of PACER docket entries and legal documents gathered through the RECAP crowdsourcing project.
API-Zugang
https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4/search/?q= (token for limits)
Zugang
Programmatic API access (a key may be required, see the API tag).