Document

A case will contain many more documents than are uploaded to the Clearinghouse. We generally add documents that provide additional information that help someone understand what is going on in the case, such as complaints, opinions, orders, and settlement agreements. We also add documents that we find particularly interesting, such as letters between lawyers about how to litigate the case. Particularly interesting documents that apply more broadly, such as memoranda explaining a complex litigation strategy involving multiple cases, are uploaded as resources (see Resource).

Each document url endpoint returns a list of documents, where each document is a JSON dictionary containing "next", "previous", "results" and "case_name" values.

case_name

The top level case_name is the name of the case the documents belong to, as retrieved from the case itself.

This is not to be confused with the case_name inlined in document results, which is retrieved from the document itself (see case_name).

Example

Example: a completely blank document

When accessing the `api/v2p1/cases/case_id/documents/` endpoint.

{
  "next": null,
  "previous": null,
  "results": [
    {
      "id": null,
      "title": "",
      "no_title": false,
      "description": "",
      "public_note": "",
      "date": "",
      "date_is_estimate": false,
      "date_not_available": false,
      "document_type": "",
      "document_type_other": null,
      "document_status": "",
      "case_name": "",
      "document_source": null,
      "order_type": null,
      "is_core_document": false,
      "court": "",
      "citation_paren": null,
      "citation_status": null,
      "cite_1_vol": null,
      "cite_1_reporter": null,
      "cite_1_page": null,
      "cite_2_vol": null,
      "cite_2_reporter": null,
      "cite_2_page": null,
      "cite_3_vol": null,
      "cite_3_reporter": null,
      "cite_3_page": null,
      "party_types": [],
      "per_curium": false,
      "ecf_number": "",
      "external_url": "",
      "clearinghouse_link": "",
      "file": null,
      "has_text": false,
      "text_url": "",
      "born_digital_status": ""
    }
  ],
  "case_name": ""
}