Search U.S. and Canadian court decisions
Find cases by name, citation, docket number, or keywords with CaseLite, Caseway's free legal case search product.
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United States
Search federal and state decisions, or browse the primary-law collections available for each state.
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Canada
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Start with a state, province, territory, or federal jurisdiction to browse the statutes, regulations, and other primary-law collections currently published.
How to search
Four ways to find a decision
Case name
Enter the party names as they appear in the decision, such as Brown v. Board or R. v. Jordan.
Citation
Use a reported or neutral citation, such as 347 U.S. 483 or 2016 SCC 27.
Docket number
Use the court file or docket identifier when you have a filing but no citation yet.
Keywords
Search the words used in decisions, then narrow the results by date or jurisdiction.
Prefer a longer walkthrough? Read how free court case search works or our data and methodology notes.
The Corpus
Search the same database that powers Casey.
CaseLite gives you direct access to the legal corpus behind Caseway's AI research tools. Canadian and U.S. court decisions — indexed, structured, and searchable. Find cases by keyword, party, citation, or legal concept.
New decisions are ingested continuously from official court record sources across both countries.
Capabilities
Purpose-built for legal case discovery
A substantial Canada and U.S. legal corpus
Verified court decisions from Canadian and U.S. courts — federal, provincial, state, and appellate — all searchable from a single interface.
Full-text search with precision
Search by keyword, party name, citation, judge, statute reference, or legal concept. Find exactly the decision you need in seconds.
U.S. and Canadian coverage
Choose the United States or Canada, then search that country's decisions or browse available primary-law collections by jurisdiction.
Verified, real case law only
Every result links to an actual court decision sourced from official records. No AI-generated text, no hallucinated citations.
Advanced filtering and sorting
Search by case name, citation, docket number, keywords, and date. Sort by date or relevance to surface useful decisions.
Continuously updated corpus
New decisions are ingested and indexed on an ongoing basis from official court record sources across both countries.
Who it's for
Built for anyone who needs court decisions
Legal professionals
Find precedent, verify citations, and research opposing counsel's case history across jurisdictions.
Self-represented litigants
Understand how courts have ruled on similar issues. Read real decisions to prepare for your own matter.
Academic researchers
Study judicial trends, sentencing patterns, and legal doctrine evolution across courts and time periods.
Journalists and policy analysts
Investigate court records, track judicial decisions on specific topics, and source primary legal documents.
How It Works
From court records to search results in seconds
Full detail lives on how CaseLite works and AI case law research methodology.
01
Ingest
Decisions are sourced from official court record databases across Canada and the United States.
02
Structure
Each decision is parsed into metadata — parties, judges, citations, dates, jurisdiction, and court level.
03
Index
Full-text indexing makes every word searchable. Citation graphs link related decisions together.
04
Search
You type a query. CaseLite returns ranked results in milliseconds with relevant passages highlighted.
Questions
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