Legal Databases by Subject

Last Updated: Jul 2, 2025 3:24 PM

Docket Databases

Fastcase
Law resource that includes cases, statutes, regulations, court rules, and constitutions. "Docket Alarm," provides access to millions of documents from federal and a growing number of state (including NY) courts. More Info
IN-HOUSE

RECAP Archive (CourtListener)
This is a searchable collection of millions of PACER documents and dockets. PACER is the government-run system where nearly every legal document is filed from federal cases. The archive also includes every free PACER opinion.
CourtLink (on Lexis Advance)
Federal Dockets & Documents. Also Dockets for a number of states.
Dockets on Westlaw
Docket information on cases filed in State Courts, U.S. District Courts, U.S. Courts of Appeal, U.S. Bankruptcy Courts and the U.S. Supreme Court. Some coverage of UK Courts and Tribunals Dockets.

PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records)
The PACER service provides on-line access to U.S. Appellate, District, and Bankruptcy court records and documents nationwide. More Info
IN-HOUSE
ProQuest Supreme Court Insight (1975 – present)
Records, briefs, and other documents from recent U.S. Supreme Court cases. More Info
UB ONLY
Trellis
Online access to state trial court records and judicial analytics. More Info
Full-Text UB ONLY
U.S. Supreme Court Case Documents
Provides access to dockets from 2001 to present and to electronic images of most filings submitted in U.S. Supreme Court cases from November 13, 2017 to present. More Info
Full-Text PUBLIC

More Information

The Search for Case Dockets & Documents Around the World
By Rachel Green, Caitlin Hunter,Sherry Leysen, and Lynn McClelland
from: AALL Spectrum, Volume 27, Number 6 (July/August 2023), pgs 48-50.