Federal Appeals Cases
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Find Appeals Case By Number

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Finds Lex Machina case ids for specified federal court of appeals case numbers.

  • case_numbers: case number search strings
  • court: optional court to limit results

Matches results for each individual case number is cut off at 1000 match results.

Because case number formats vary, and because the case number for the same case can change over time, the search tries to err on the side of being more inclusive. So, this may return more results than you expect.

The court param is optional and can be any of the name versions given by the /list-courts endpoint (must match capitalization). Providing a value for the court param will filter all case number searches in the request for cases within that court.

get/find-appeals-cases

Request

  • Base URL
    https://api.lexmachina.com (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
  • Auth
    HTTP bearer

Query parameters

caseNumbersstring[] required
courtstring nullable

Response

Successful Response

totalCountinteger required
inputCaseNumberstring required
inputCourtstring nullable

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