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About CourtListener

CourtListener is a free legal research website containing millions of legal opinions from federal and state courts. With CourtListener, lawyers, journalists, academics, and the public can research an important case, stay up to date with case law as it develops, or do deep analysis using our raw data.

About Free Law Project

Free Law Project seeks to provide free access to primary legal materials, develop legal research tools, and support academic research on legal corpora. We work diligently with volunteers to expand our efforts at building an open source, open access, legal research ecosystem. Currently Free Law Project sponsors the development of CourtListener, Juriscraper, and RECAP.

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Latest Oral Arguments 

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The Numbers 

8,200,000

Number of precedential opinions in CourtListener.

6,635

Case law added in last ten days.

2,421

Duration of all oral arguments in CourtListener, in days.

79

Oral arguments added in last ten days.

9,410,980

Number of queries made in last ten days.

158,653

Number of alert emails sent in last ten days.

25,812,702

API calls made against our system in last ten days.

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