[HN Gopher] Full Text Search of US Court records
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       Full Text Search of US Court records
        
       Author : FigurativeVoid
       Score  : 78 points
       Date   : 2025-04-18 20:24 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.judyrecords.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.judyrecords.com)
        
       | catlover76 wrote:
       | Where is this getting the docs from? It's a lot of work for
       | FLP/Courtlistener to get stuff, and even they don't have 100% of
       | records (not sure if this site is claiming to have 100%, it's
       | unclear)
        
         | TZubiri wrote:
         | Probably scraped and aggregated from the various state,
         | municipal and federal courts directly.
        
       | ideashower wrote:
       | Assuming this is Federal Court and not States, right?
        
         | wavemode wrote:
         | Doesn't seem to be Federal-only, or even only major crimes.
         | Here is a result I found for misdemeanor failure to pay taxes
         | in Alaska: https://www.judyrecords.com/record/1q894pg6bfe9
        
       | 6stringmerc wrote:
       | Very cool glad this site is still around after the fiasco with
       | the company claiming a hack / breach when it was their own
       | deployment revealing sealed case files.
        
       | pvg wrote:
       | Some big Show HN threads a couple of years ago:
       | 
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30399881
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       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25150702
        
       | kubb wrote:
       | 4,577,166 cases for marijuana.
        
       | hoten wrote:
       | I searched my name. It gave me a hit for someone (criminal
       | trespass) in Texas, in a year I lived there, with my exact same
       | height and ~same weight, and the arraignment date is my birthday.
       | Wasn't me. Spooky!
        
         | thelittleone wrote:
         | Sleep walker per chance?
        
       | TZubiri wrote:
       | Very nice.
       | 
       | Can you do structured field queries?
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       | Like, all cases where defendant is X. And maybe where the cause
       | is Y
        
       | breadchris wrote:
       | would love this even more if the search query ended up in the URL
        
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