US Legal Dataset
Overview
Our US Legal dataset provides comprehensive coverage of federal and state court records, including civil and criminal cases. The data is normalized and structured to focus on key case participants—plaintiffs, defendants, and material parties—enabling accurate risk screening while minimizing false positives from legal representation and court personnel.
About this data
Scope - US Federal & State Courts
This dataset covers litigation records from:
- Federal District Courts (civil and criminal cases)
- Federal Courts of Appeals
- US Supreme Court
- State courts across all 50 states (where publicly accessible)
- Bankruptcy courts
Data Collection Approach
We aggregate court records from federal PACER systems and state court electronic filing systems, applying advanced normalization and entity resolution to create a unified, searchable dataset.
Participant-Focused Normalization
Our approach identifies and extracts key case participants while filtering out legal representation (attorneys, law firms), judges, court staff, and other ancillary roles. This significantly reduces screening noise and potential false positives, focusing your due diligence on actual parties to litigation.
Each participant record includes:
- Party type (plaintiff, defendant, respondent, etc.)
- Case type and subject matter categorization
- Court jurisdiction and level
- Case status and disposition
- Filing and resolution dates
- Name variants and entity identifiers
Structure & linkages
Cases are tagged by jurisdiction, case type, and court level. Participant records are linked to their cases with temporal tracking, enabling you to identify litigation patterns, assess risk exposure, and perform comprehensive background checks.
Frequency of updates
Our US Legal dataset is updated regularly to capture new filings and case developments across federal and state courts.