CaseDiver

Free caselaw search on LawDiver

Search type

Reads the query and runs every engine that has something to work with, then merges the results.

Jurisdiction

Everything in the corpus.

Search by citation, case name, boolean terms, or a description of the issue. Connectors are supported: AND OR NOT, "exact phrase", /s (same sentence), /p (same paragraph), w/5 (within 5 words). Full connector guide →

How to research caselaw

  1. 1.Choose your jurisdiction

    Pick the court system whose decisions bind your case: a single state, a federal circuit, or the U.S. Supreme Court. Coverage includes U.S. Supreme Court, federal courts of appeals, federal district courts, and the appellate and supreme courts of all fifty states.

  2. 2.Describe the issue or enter a citation

    Type a citation or case name for a known decision, or describe the legal issue in plain English and let semantic search find opinions that address it. Boolean terms with proximity connectors also work.

  3. 3.Read the opinion

    Open a result to read the full text of the decision alongside its citation, court, date, and holdings, and download the official court PDF.

  4. 4.Export a research project

    Select the cases that matter and download a structured PDF of the set, which can be handed to an AI assistant so its answers are grounded in real opinions.

For connector syntax, read the search connectors and boolean operators guide. Developers can call the same corpus via the LawDiver API or the MCP server for AI assistants.

Frequently asked questions

How do I look up a court case for free?

Open CaseDiver on LawDiver, choose the jurisdiction, and search by citation, case name, or a description of the legal issue. All 10 million+ opinions are readable in full at no cost and with no account.

Can I search caselaw by describing the legal issue instead of using keywords?

Yes. CaseDiver runs semantic search over opinion text, so a plain-English description of the issue returns cases that address it even when they use different wording. Keyword, boolean, and citation search are also supported.

Does CaseDiver support boolean search operators?

Yes. Boolean terms with proximity connectors (AND, OR, NOT, exact phrases, /s same sentence, /p same paragraph, and w/n within n words) are supported — documented at /docs/search-connectors — alongside citation lookup, case-name lookup, and semantic search over the full text.

Can I download the official PDF of an opinion?

Yes. Every opinion links to the official court PDF, and a selected set of cases can be exported as a single structured research PDF.

Looking for operators? See the boolean search operators guide, or the API documentation.