{"disclaimer":"Derived from public Connecticut court records; not the official record; verify with the court.","coverage":{"asOf":"2026-09-09","totalCases":4979,"districts":[{"district":"HARTFORD JD","cases":4979,"readDocumentKinds":["verdict_form","jury_interrogatories","arbitrator_decision","memorandum_of_decision","offer_of_compromise","motion_for_summary_judgment","ruling_on_motion","complaint","expert_disclosure"]}],"caseTypes":[{"value":"V01","cases":4706},{"value":"V04","cases":164},{"value":"V09","cases":109}],"filedYears":[{"value":"1992","cases":1},{"value":"2009","cases":1},{"value":"2012","cases":3},{"value":"2013","cases":8},{"value":"2014","cases":38},{"value":"2015","cases":90},{"value":"2016","cases":134},{"value":"2017","cases":161},{"value":"2018","cases":144},{"value":"2019","cases":93},{"value":"2020","cases":60},{"value":"2021","cases":67},{"value":"2022","cases":97},{"value":"2023","cases":276},{"value":"2024","cases":844},{"value":"2025","cases":1627},{"value":"2026","cases":1335}]},"fields":{"case":[{"name":"docketNumber","description":"Connecticut docket number, e.g. HHD-CV-21-6140000-S."},{"name":"officialUrl","description":"The case on the Connecticut Judicial Branch civil inquiry site, the official record."},{"name":"district","description":"Judicial district the case is filed in, e.g. HARTFORD JD."},{"name":"caseType","description":"Court case type code: V01 driver or passenger vs driver, V04 pedestrian vs driver, V09 other motor-vehicle torts."},{"name":"litigationType","description":"third_party (injured person vs at-fault driver), um_uim (claim against own uninsured/underinsured motorist carrier), subrogation (insurer suing to recover what it paid)."},{"name":"fileDate","description":"Date the case was filed."},{"name":"fileYear","description":"Year the case was filed."},{"name":"dispositionCategory","description":"How the case ended, grouped from the court disposition text; null while pending. damages_hearing is a judgment after a hearing that only set damages, usually after a default, not a trial."},{"name":"dispositionDate","description":"Date of disposition; null while pending."},{"name":"daysToDisposition","description":"Days from filing to disposition; null while pending."},{"name":"trialKind","description":"jury or court when the case was tried to a verdict or decision; null otherwise."},{"name":"trialDate","description":"Trial date recorded on the docket."},{"name":"closedPleadingsDate","description":"Date pleadings were closed."},{"name":"juryClaimDate","description":"Date a jury was claimed."},{"name":"defendants","description":"Number of defendants."},{"name":"splitOutcome","description":"True when defendants in the same case reached different outcomes."},{"name":"acceptedOfferCents","description":"Amount of the offer of compromise that was accepted, in cents; null when none was accepted or the amount is unknown."},{"name":"arbitrationNetAwardCents","description":"Net court-annexed arbitration award, in cents, when one was read from the award."},{"name":"trialDeNovoDemanded","description":"True when either side demanded a trial de novo after arbitration."},{"name":"netVerdictCents","description":"Net jury verdict for the plaintiff after comparative negligence, in cents; null without a plaintiff or mixed jury verdict whose amount was read."},{"name":"dispositionJudgeKey","description":"Key of the judge who decided the disposition, when a judge did."},{"name":"plaintiffJurisNumber","description":"Juris number of the plaintiff side's lead law firm."},{"name":"defenseJurisNumber","description":"Juris number of the defense side's lead law firm."}],"complaintFacts":[{"name":"mechanism","description":"How the crash happened, read from the complaint."},{"name":"plaintiffRole","description":"What the plaintiff was: driver, passenger, …"},{"name":"roadType","description":"Kind of road the crash happened on."},{"name":"commercialVehicle","description":"Whether a commercial vehicle was involved."},{"name":"umUim","description":"Whether the complaint claims uninsured/underinsured coverage."},{"name":"amountInDemand","description":"Amount-in-demand band stated on the complaint."},{"name":"injuryKinds","description":"Kinds of injury the complaint alleges."},{"name":"injuryRegions","description":"Body regions the complaint says were injured."},{"name":"claimsLostWages","description":"Whether the complaint claims lost wages."}]},"metrics":[{"name":"case_count","unit":"case","description":"Number of cases, open or closed.","nCounts":"Cases.","closedInWindow":false,"caveats":[]},{"name":"disposition_mix","unit":"case","description":"Closed cases counted by disposition category, in counts.","nCounts":"Cases closed in the window.","closedInWindow":true,"caveats":["Counts only cases closed in the 330 days ending at the as-of date (closedFrom to closedTo): the court removes withdrawn cases about a year after withdrawal, so only the last ~11 months of closures are complete. A district last fetched before the as-of date contributes closures only up to its fetch date, a slightly shorter window; the closures it does contribute are still complete.","Closures on record cluster in this window anyway: the court has already removed older withdrawals, so earlier years hold mostly judgments.","Contested trials are rare, about 0.5% of closures, so any split of them is thin; always read n."]},{"name":"median_days_to_disposition","unit":"case","description":"Median days from filing to disposition, as medianDays.","nCounts":"Cases closed in the window.","closedInWindow":true,"caveats":["Counts only cases closed in the 330 days ending at the as-of date (closedFrom to closedTo): the court removes withdrawn cases about a year after withdrawal, so only the last ~11 months of closures are complete. 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A district last fetched before the as-of date contributes closures only up to its fetch date, a slightly shorter window; the closures it does contribute are still complete.","Closures on record cluster in this window anyway: the court has already removed older withdrawals, so earlier years hold mostly judgments.","Contested trials are rare, about 0.5% of closures, so any split of them is thin; always read n."]},{"name":"plaintiff_verdict_rate","unit":"case","description":"Plaintiff verdicts as a share of plaintiff plus defense verdicts, as rate, with the count as plaintiffVerdicts.","nCounts":"Plaintiff plus defense verdicts; mixed verdicts are left out.","closedInWindow":false,"caveats":["Counts every verdict on record, since verdicts are not removed from the court website, but recent years hold only a few verdicts each; always read n."]},{"name":"net_verdict","unit":"case","description":"Net plaintiff jury verdict after comparative negligence, in cents: medianCents, and the nearest-rank 25th and 75th percentiles as p25Cents and p75Cents.","nCounts":"Plaintiff or mixed jury verdicts whose amount was read from the verdict form.","closedInWindow":false,"caveats":["Counts every verdict on record, since verdicts are not removed from the court website, but recent years hold only a few verdicts each; always read n."]},{"name":"accepted_offer","unit":"case","description":"Accepted offer of compromise, in cents: medianCents, and the nearest-rank 25th and 75th percentiles as p25Cents and p75Cents.","nCounts":"Cases closed in the window with an accepted offer whose amount was read.","closedInWindow":true,"caveats":["Counts only cases closed in the 330 days ending at the as-of date (closedFrom to closedTo): the court removes withdrawn cases about a year after withdrawal, so only the last ~11 months of closures are complete. A district last fetched before the as-of date contributes closures only up to its fetch date, a slightly shorter window; the closures it does contribute are still complete.","Most cases with an accepted offer then close by withdrawal, which the court removes about a year later; hence the window."]},{"name":"motion_grant_rate","unit":"ruling","description":"Granted rulings as a share of decided ones, as rate, with the count as granted. Counted per ruling, not per case.","nCounts":"Decided rulings: granted, denied or granted in part. 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For cases, the judge who decided the disposition; for rulings, the judge who ruled."},{"name":"plaintiff_firm","units":["case","ruling"],"multiValued":false,"description":"Juris number of the plaintiff side's lead firm."},{"name":"defense_firm","units":["case","ruling"],"multiValued":false,"description":"Juris number of the defense side's lead firm."},{"name":"motion_family","units":["ruling"],"multiValued":false,"description":"Kind of motion ruled on."},{"name":"moving_side","units":["ruling"],"multiValued":false,"description":"Side that filed the motion."},{"name":"mechanism","units":["case","ruling"],"multiValued":false,"description":"How the crash happened. Read from the complaint; null when the complaint was not read."},{"name":"plaintiff_role","units":["case","ruling"],"multiValued":false,"description":"Driver, passenger, pedestrian… Read from the complaint; null when the complaint was not read."},{"name":"road_type","units":["case","ruling"],"multiValued":false,"description":"Kind of road. Read from the complaint; null when the complaint was not read."},{"name":"commercial_vehicle","units":["case","ruling"],"multiValued":false,"description":"Whether a commercial vehicle was involved. Read from the complaint; null when the complaint was not read."},{"name":"um_uim","units":["case","ruling"],"multiValued":false,"description":"Whether UM/UIM coverage is claimed. Read from the complaint; null when the complaint was not read."},{"name":"amount_in_demand","units":["case","ruling"],"multiValued":false,"description":"Amount-in-demand band on the complaint. Read from the complaint; null when the complaint was not read."},{"name":"claims_lost_wages","units":["case","ruling"],"multiValued":false,"description":"Whether lost wages are claimed. Read from the complaint; null when the complaint was not read."},{"name":"injury_kind","units":["case","ruling"],"multiValued":true,"description":"Kind of injury alleged. Read from the complaint; null when the complaint was not read."},{"name":"injury_region","units":["case","ruling"],"multiValued":true,"description":"Body region injured. Read from the complaint; null when the complaint was not read."}],"caveats":["Cases are Connecticut Superior Court motor-vehicle injury cases (types V01, V04, V09) in the districts listed under coverage, as the court website showed them on the as-of date.","The court removes withdrawn cases from its website about a year after withdrawal, so older closures under-count withdrawals. So disposition_mix, median_days_to_disposition, trial_rate, and accepted_offer, plus the outcome counts in judge, firm, attorney and provider profiles, count only cases closed in the 330 days ending at the as-of date; each such result states its window as closedFrom and closedTo. case_count, plaintiff_verdict_rate, and net_verdict count every case on record, and the verdict figures in profiles cover every verdict: verdicts are not removed.","filed_from and filed_to select cases by filing date; with a windowed metric they give the recent closures of cases filed in that range.","A metric cannot be filtered or grouped by a dimension that already records what it measures, since the filter itself would fix the answer: disposition_mix by disposition_category, trial_rate by trial_kind or disposition_category, and plaintiff_verdict_rate by disposition_category.","A hearing in damages (disposition damages_hearing) only sets damages, usually after a default; it is not counted as a trial.","Amounts (verdicts, accepted offers, arbitration awards) come from reading filed documents and exist only where those documents were read; readDocumentKinds shows which kinds were read in each district.","Mechanism, injuries and the other complaint facts exist only for cases whose complaint was read.","A firm's case counts (cases, plaintiffCases, defenseCases) cover every case it appeared in. Its other figures (casesByYear, opposing firms, experts, motion practice, outcomes), the stats plaintiff_firm and defense_firm dimensions and the firm_juris_number filter cover only the cases where it is a side's lead firm, so one firm's case total can differ slightly from place to place.","An attorney's figures span every firm the attorney has filed with, not only their current firm.","In stats: Any group of 3 or fewer cases is suppressed: it shows suppressed: true and no values.","In stats: injury_kind and injury_region are multi-valued: one case can sit in several of their groups, so those groups overlap and their counts can add up to more than the total.","In stats: At most 100 groups, largest n first; truncated says whether more exist.","Searches return at most 50 per page.","Individuals who are parties never appear by name; neither do quotes, addresses or contact details."],"examples":["describe_dataset {}","search_cases {\"district\":\"HARTFORD JD\",\"filed_from\":\"2021-01-01\",\"limit\":5}","get_case {\"docket_number\":\"HHD-CV-13-6042060-S\"}","stats {\"metric\":\"net_verdict\",\"group_by\":[\"injury_kind\"]}","search_judges {\"limit\":5}","get_judge {\"judge_key\":\"MORGAN|L\"}","search_firms {\"side\":\"defense\",\"min_cases\":20,\"limit\":5}","get_firm {\"juris_number\":\"408308\"}","search_attorneys {\"side\":\"plaintiff\",\"limit\":5}","get_attorney {\"juris_number\":\"409856\"}","search_providers {\"side\":\"defense_examiner\",\"specialty\":\"orthop\",\"limit\":5}","get_provider {\"provider_id\":\"practice:jeffersonradiology\"}","request_data {\"description\":\"<describe the data you need and what it is for>\"}","send_message {\"message\":\"<your message to the person who runs this service>\"}"]}