Judy Records
Data
legal case search
SHOW HN2022
698points
269comments
#22of 2,570 in 2022
Top 1%of 2022 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
26 positive, 76 neutral or asking, 7 mixed, 36 critical, out of 145 comments about the project. Thread score +0.01.
Privacy: 2 for, 20 againstIdea: 10 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 4 againstExecution: 2 for, 3 againstPerformance: 3 for, 2 against
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What people liked
Very fast search and light, simple interface
From 4 comments
Fantastic. Love it. Wish I could download the whole 630M DB, not just 700K cases from Texas. I especially love the interface. It's light and fast. Not unnecessarily burdened by…
loxias on HNThat's a great use case. Thank you for sharing!
richardbarosky on HNthis is excellent with super fast results. What is the tech stack?
foolinaround on HNNice work, very fast, simple display. Also, I learned that a speeding ticket I never paid back in the 80's is still an open case, and that a few articles I wrote in the 90's have…
markbnj on HN
Useful for finding public court records and case law
From 2 comments
That is great. Regular people access to the information is great power equalizer. I had lost a small case - fine print and a lot of undelivered promises - after 3 lawyers said…
trhway on HNThis is great. I tried it and found the traffic tickets I got.
ww520 on HN
Objections
Privacy concerns about exposing expunged or old records
From 3 comments
Cool, I guess. I'm not really a fan of anything that can be used to further persecute people who have already paid their debts to society. I know this is public information, but…
heavyset_go on HNThis is a pretty big violation of privacy, especially for people who's criminal records have been expunged. It could satisfy some people's curiosity or if they are a lawyer, they…
boomer918 on HNThis is... not great. It's crucial that these records be open to public inspection. But instant full-text search of the entire dockets of 630M cases feels wrong, invasive, and…
kyboren on HN
Search lacks exact-match and field-specific filtering
From 2 comments
You should be able to do an exact match search here. Trying to use double quotes on my name turns up a boatload of hits, but most of them appear to be cases where my first name…
bradknowles on HNThis seems pretty good at first glance but there's significant room for improvement. Since this is HN, allow me to nitpick... - "630M" is a big number, sure, but I don't have a…
airstrike on HN
Results include unrelated records such as patents
From 2 comments
oh these includes patents, weird
agumonkey on HNWhy patents are there? https://www.judyrecords.com/record/v5j59cngw2c8e
motyar on HN
Requests
Field-specific and exact-case search
From 2 comments
This seems pretty good at first glance but there's significant room for improvement. Since this is HN, allow me to nitpick... - "630M" is a big number, sure, but I don't have a…
airstrike on HNYou should be able to do an exact match search here. Trying to use double quotes on my name turns up a boatload of hits, but most of them appear to be cases where my first name…
bradknowles on HN
Downloadable or API access to the data
From 2 comments
Fantastic. Love it. Wish I could download the whole 630M DB, not just 700K cases from Texas. I especially love the interface. It's light and fast. Not unnecessarily burdened by…
loxias on HNThis seems pretty good at first glance but there's significant room for improvement. Since this is HN, allow me to nitpick... - "630M" is a big number, sure, but I don't have a…
airstrike on HN
Questions
What is the data source and how is it aggregated
From 2 comments
Neat. I'll add this to my sources on case law -- another one I've come across is https://case.law/ Per my close friend, the value of these (or, why people subscribe to…
tomrod on HNThis is amazing. Can you share any info on how you were able to compile so much info from different sources? In my limited experience of hunting for legal filings, it seemed like…
codechad on HN
Who runs the site and how is it funded
From 1 comment
Who made this site? How is it funded? They don't reveal themselves afaict. Why should I trust it?
wolverine876 on HN
Alternatives named
CourtListener
From 1 comment
CourtListener is a free source that does this very well for high-level courts. (i.e., US Supreme Court, Federal Courts, State Courts of Last Resort/State Supreme Courts). For…
richardbarosky on HN
Justia and Casetext
From 1 comment
How is this different from other free legal DBs like Justia and Casetext?
jordanpg on HN
case.law
From 1 comment
Neat. I'll add this to my sources on case law -- another one I've come across is https://case.law/ Per my close friend, the value of these (or, why people subscribe to…
tomrod on HN
PACER
From 1 comment
The fact that this is free is mind boggling. Maybe four or five years ago I had access to a commercial court search API which had 850mn cases nationwide, and it cost a pretty…
throwaway-PII on HN