Lex Machina Legal Analytics API
Commercial bearer-token API for federal district, appeals, and partial state-court case data. State queries require one state and may filter courts, status, case type, dates, resolutions, damages, and rulings; direct ca…
Questions this answers
5 · best fit firstLex Machina can query federal district cases by a selected party, attorney, status, resolution, and date and returns totalCases plus case records with court, status, and date structures. The cited material does not establish the person's role and both filing/disposition dates on every returned case, a search as-of timestamp, or complete state-court coverage.
Lex Machina accepts party, attorney, status, resolution, and date filters for federal district cases and returns matching case totals plus case records with court, status, and case-date structures; state-court coverage is partial. The cited analytics result does not itself guarantee party role, filing and disposition dates on every result, database/search as-of time, or complete U.S. civil-court coverage.
The API supports attorney-, court-, case-type-, date-, status-, and resolution-filtered case cohorts and matched counts, supplying raw experience and outcome evidence; no aggregate duration or win-rate output is documented.
Buyer-selected court, case-type, resolution, and date cohorts expose filing and termination dates for raw duration calculation; state coverage is partial and no aggregate benchmark is claimed.
Court-, case-type-, status-, resolution-, and date-filtered case cohorts, matched counts, and filing/termination dates provide raw venue disposition-mix and duration evidence; state coverage is partial and no aggregate benchmark is emitted.
Fields it delivers
6 fieldsLex Machina covers U.S. federal courts and a partial, expanding set of state courts; state-court incompleteness is material but remains within one-country coverage.
The first-party product and agreement evidence identifies customer-specific commercial, member, subscription, or enterprise access rather than an unrestricted no-charge business tier. That agreement is the ordinary eligible business route and requires paid commercial access; demonstrations or limited evaluation access are not alternatives.
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