Frequently Asked Questions

A full-text search tool for Maricopa County Superior Court civil minute entries — the rulings, orders, and scheduling notes the court posts publicly. Built for Arizona civil litigators who want to find patterns in how judges rule on motions without manually digging through the docket.

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No. It runs entirely in your browser. Just sign in and start searching. No downloads, VPN, or court logins required.

The database refreshes nightly from Maricopa County's public docket. New minute entries appear within ~24 hours of the court posting them, sometimes longer if there's a court-side lag.

Yes. The Judge filter narrows results to a specific judicial officer. The Survey page also shows grant rates per judge, broken down by motion type.

The system tags entries with 18 motion types in the Survey (MTD, MSJ, MPSJ, Compel, Sanctions, Injunction, Fees, Strike, Reconsideration, Amend, Continue, NewTrial, SetAside, Protective, Quash, Bifurcate, Disqualify, ClassCert) using a regex + LLM classifier hybrid. Search-side tagging additionally covers procedural events (OSC, Default, Dismissal, Trial, Settlement, etc.) — those still appear in search results but were dropped from the Survey because the grant/deny model didn't fit those events well. Coverage is good for standard motions; unusual or procedurally complex orders can be missed.

The Search page has a corpus toggle with three options: Civil (CV — Superior Court civil minute entries, the default), Lower Court appeals (LC — Superior Court rulings on Justice/City Court appeals), and Appellate (AP — Arizona Court of Appeals civil-side opinions and memorandum decisions: Division One since 2007 and Division Two opinions since 2002). You can also set it directly via ?source=CV|LC|AP in the URL. The three corpora are searched one at a time, never commingled.

Yes. Filter by party name (plaintiff or defendant) and search the full text of entries (which includes case numbers). A direct text search for a case number will pull it up quickly.

The filters stack. Select the judge, motion type, and use a text search for "denied" or "DENIED" to narrow further. The Survey page also shows aggregate grant/deny rates for that judge–motion combination.

Saved searches and keyword alerts aren't shipped yet. In the meantime, the Weekly Digest rounds up substantive rulings every week.

Paste or upload your motion (PDF, DOCX, or TXT, up to 10 MB) and the Match page surfaces the most similar past rulings from the corpus. It pulls the most distinctive words from your text — filtering out party names, common legal boilerplate, and generic verbs — and runs a relevance-ranked search. Optional filters: judge, motion type (auto-detected by default), and minimum entry size (defaults to 200 KB to skip one-line procedural orders).

Each extracted "matched on" term shows up as a clickable chip above the results. Click a term once to require it (results must contain it), twice to drop it (the algorithm over-weighted it for your motion), three times to reset. The search re-runs automatically after each click.

PDF (with a text layer — scanned-only PDFs without OCR will fail), DOCX, and plain TXT. The page tells you how many characters it extracted; under ~80 chars usually means an OCR-less scan or a malformed file.

Yes — there's a parallel Match page on our criminal-side companion at courtrulings.net/match, tuned for criminal motion types (Suppress, Rule 11/20/32, Bond, Brady, Severance, etc.).

No, civil only. For Maricopa County criminal minute entries, see our companion site at courtrulings.net (same login).

The index covers ~828,000 minute entries and is refreshed nightly, but we don't claim 100% completeness. The data comes from the court's public docket, and there can be gaps or delays on the court's side.

A few possibilities: the entry might not be tagged as that motion type (the classifier can miss unusual ones), the case might be criminal or family law (we're civil only), or the court hasn't posted the minute entry yet. Try a broad text search for the case number to verify.

The system uses regex patterns plus an LLM to tag entries by motion type. Standard motions are tagged reliably; unusual requests or procedurally complex orders can be misclassified. Always read the underlying minute entry before relying on the classification for research.

The Survey page shows grant rates (percentage of motions granted vs. denied) for each judge, broken down by motion type. Quick way to see which judges tend to grant MTDs, who denies MSJs frequently, etc.

Useful context, not crystal balls. Grant rates show historical patterns but don't account for case specifics, brief quality, or changes in a judge's approach over time. Use them as one data point.

By default the per-judge view counts every ruling. Two filters can sharpen the picture: Contested only excludes unopposed motions — under Ariz. R. Civ. P. 7.1(b), an unopposed motion is essentially auto-granted regardless of the judge, so including them inflates every judge's grant rate. The Overall table is contested-only by design for the same reason. Movant: plaintiff vs. defendant filters to motions filed by that side. Plaintiff MSJs corpus-wide are granted at roughly three times the rate of defendant MSJs, so this filter often matters more than which judge is hearing the motion.

Not yet. View on screen or screenshot for now. Bulk export is on the roadmap.

A generated briefing on a judge or a party, built from our minute-entry corpus and official public court sources (judicial biography, published courtroom protocol, performance reviews, discipline records). Every factual claim carries a numbered citation you can click to see the underlying source — a real ruling, a statistics table, or an official page. It is a research springboard, not a prediction of any ruling and not legal advice.

Open Reports in the top navigation, pick judge or party, name the subject, and optionally add your case topic or upload a pleading for case-specific analysis. Quick depth uses our corpus only; standard depth also checks official court websites. Report generation is included with Reports access at $0 per report — there is no AI-credit balance or separate purchase. Customer accounts may start or rerun up to six reports per rolling hour, and a report typically finishes in under two minutes.

Corpus statistics update with our nightly data refresh. Official-web sources are fetched live and permanently archived — if a court page later disappears, the report can still cite the archived copy with its capture date. Reports state their sample sizes, flag thin data, and pass automated checks that block uncited claims; a Limitations section discloses exactly what could not be verified.

We retain search queries for up to 12 months to operate the Service, debug issues, and improve relevance ranking. We do not sell them, use them for advertising, or build behavioral profiles. See the Privacy Policy's retention section.

Passwords are stored as bcrypt hashes. We don't store a personal profile of public court entries you view or search. See our Privacy Policy for details.

Court Orders includes a 14-day free trial, then costs $79/month. You can cancel anytime. Accounts are for individual users and may not be shared.

No. Accounts are per-individual. Sharing violates the Terms of Service.