CourtListener
Legal research for everyone
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Cómo funciona
Connect to CourtListener, the Free Law Project's legal research platform, with access to millions of U.S. court opinions, PACER dockets, judge profiles, oral arguments, and citation data. Search case law across federal and state courts, retrieve full case metadata, extract and verify legal citations against a canonical database, and set up alerts for new opinions or docket updates. Built and operated by Free Law Project, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to making the law broadly accessible. Suited for attorneys, legal researchers, journalists, academics, and pro se litigants who need fast, reliable access to primary legal sources.
Common use cases
Compare court decisions
Prepare a source-linked overview of how federal appeals courts have addressed qualified immunity for school officials.
@CourtListener Find federal appeals court decisions on qualified immunity for school officials. Compare their holdings and relevant facts in a research memo with citations, links, and questions requiring further research.
Verify citations in a draft
Check case citations against CourtListener and identify references that are missing or inconsistent.
@CourtListener Check the case citations in my uploaded draft against CourtListener. Return a table with matching cases, citation discrepancies, and unresolved references, with links for each verified match.
Track new case filings
Set up an alert for new filings in the Google ad tech case.
@CourtListener Alert me to new filings in the Google ad tech case.
What’s included
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CourtListener