Attorney Case Filings

Court Docket Data

A court docket is an official record containing the history and current status of a legal case. Our court docket data includes information extracted from court dockets. SigmaSight captures dockets from 2019 through 2024.

Total Cases

The number of cases detected with this attorney in court dockets.

Case Focus

SigmaSight detects the type of case from court docket data and buckets the cases into five categories: Motor Vehicle, Premises Liability, Product Liability, Medical Malpractice, and Other.

Filing Trends

The number of cases detected with this attorney in court dockets by year.

Why does my attorney show no filed cases, but they have verdicts identified?

We capture dockets from 2019 through 2024. If a verdict was received on a case filed before 2019, it would not show up under this attorney's docket information in Analyzer.

There are times when a case may be filed by an attorney and then the resulting verdict is achieved by a different attorney.

We have strict criteria for attorney resolution. It is possible that we have not confirmed the identity of the attorney within the detected court docket data. In many court systems, whether their name shows on the docket filing can be somewhat random. Depending on the venue, we typically find that attorneys are identified in dockets on approximately 50-60% of their cases. There are certain venues where attorneys are identified less than 25% of cases which will impact the attorney statistics for each venue.

More About Court Docket Data

Not all state courts have their court records available online for the public to see. Online court records are available for about 80% of the state court systems, including those with the most cases. The 20% that don't have their records online only represent about 6% of the litigation volume in the United States.

Even when court records are available online, the access can be different for each county. We estimate that more than 80% of all state court lawsuits have their records available online.

We work with court data partners to get the raw court records from the county court systems. We then clean up the data, standardize and normalize it (make it all look the same), and create models to analyze the information.

Sometimes, the court records may be available online, but our court data partners can't get the information. County court systems often change how they allow people to access their court records. This could be from basic maintenance, upgrades, changes to how the information is organized, or adding fees to see the records. Usually, our court data partners will get the records eventually, but it might take anywhere from a few months to two years. Most of the time, it takes about one year.

All the companies that provide court data face challenges keeping up with these changes because there are so many county courts. We want to let you know that this is why you may not be able to see court records for a specific location or lawyer.