DocketDrift

Real-time tracking of state judicial trends.

Public record · Human review · No verdicts asserted

DocketDrift

Real-time tracking of state judicial trends. Public records, organized for human review.

Opinions per year across all 4 live states, 1809 to 2025 Stacked area chart of the DocketDrift corpus by filing year: 467,633 opinions spanning 1809 to 2025, peaking in 2009 with 8,204 opinions. Composed of Louisiana (340,721, from 1809); New Hampshire (20,652, from 1843); Minnesota (68,810, from 1851); Arizona (37,450, from 1866). 1810 1840 1880 1920 1950 1990 2025
  • Louisiana 340,721
  • New Hampshire 20,652
  • Minnesota 68,810
  • Arizona 37,450

467,633 opinions, 1809–2025 · busiest year 2009 (8,204)

Live states

4 STATES

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What this is

DocketDrift collates published opinions from state appellate courts. The goal is to make patterns in published judicial decisions easier to read together — how a judge votes across related cases, how a court treats similar statutes over time. All source material is in the public record.

Our role is collation. We surface case pairs for human review; we don't assert verdicts about consistency or inconsistency.

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