Full Text Search of US Court records

I've searched for "sandwich murder" and did not find what I was looking for, but the way the elisions line up are sometimes pretty funny. I've also learned that Subway shops are among the most dangerous eateries and that bologna especially seems to make people irritable enough to open fire. A few highlights for your consideration, redacted to protect the innocent, guilty, or hungry bystanders

  - that the evidence that defendant fired the murder weapon during the sandwich
  - bologna sandwich found at the crime scene
  - presence in sandwich the morning of the murder
  - ways in which they could murder her mother. these included the sandwich ... sandwich incident could not be used
  - crime of capital murder. as a habitual offender, sentenced to life ... to the "bologna sandwich" constituted reversible error
  - coroner testified that victim had eaten a fish sandwich within 2 hours ... prior to his death
  - it was not first degree murder, and the court should have ... sandwich. he paid for the sandwich, but did not pay for the coffee
  - convicted of malice murder and possession of a ... sandwich
  - she was shot and that she had some change in one hand and a sandwich in the other ... sandwich in your hand kind of slow your progress down in getting a gun out of your ... sandwich

I searched my name. It gave me a hit for someone (criminal trespass) in Texas, in a year I lived there, with my exact same height and ~same weight, and the arraignment date is my birthday. Wasn't me. Spooky!

Some big Show HN threads a couple of years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30399881

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25150702

Search my name got the traffic infraction records, but none of the briefs and deposition I filed during discovery.

I don't know how complete this database is.

I couldn't find any hits on the Alec Balwin manslaughter case for shooting and killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injuring director Joel Souza.

Maybe it's not in the database because the case was dismissed by the presiding judge?

I appreciate that "we both reached for the gun" and "he had it coming" both turn up more than a handful of hits. "and all that jazz".

Didn't the guy that did this last time get in trouble

What kind of database is this using and how is the search so performant?

Very cool glad this site is still around after the fiasco with the company claiming a hack / breach when it was their own deployment revealing sealed case files.

I typed in my name and found my dad likes to drive around without a seat belt. He hates driving with a seat belt. Always has.

I'm a Jr.

My name is coming a bunch of times. They are all patents (?) citing something I wrote. What does this mean? Oh. article cited by patent applicant. I didn't know I inspired a bunch of Microsoft patents in the 2010s :D

Apparently it has Patent records as well... here's one of mine.

https://www.judyrecords.com/record/qfwy5i5yb1e9

As a free service, I wonder if the burden of complying with a right to be forgotten would be too much to sustain.

would love this even more if the search query ended up in the URL

Can someone help me with the filters? What’s the best way to search and filter/return only full case texts? I keep getting patents and stuff

Assuming this is Federal Court and not States, right?

How do I sort the listings? I want to sort by filing date but I don't see the option for sorting. I'm on Firefox Mobile

All of the five searches I tried had Tennessee court documents as the top result, anyone else experience this?

How does one send a removal request if an EU citizen is listed in this directory?

Very nice.

Can you do structured field queries?

Like, all cases where defendant is X. And maybe where the cause is Y

I can’t find any of the times I’ve been in court. Not sure if good or bad.

Searching up family members is a dangerous game to play on a Friday night

Interesting that it includes patents. (Found at least one of mine).

Are these not available in public search sites like Google?

Where is this getting the docs from? It's a lot of work for FLP/Courtlistener to get stuff, and even they don't have 100% of records (not sure if this site is claiming to have 100%, it's unclear)

4,577,166 cases for marijuana.