Case Harvester documentation

These pages explain how the dataset is assembled, what it can and cannot establish, and how to use the interfaces that serve it. Case Harvester is a research database, not an official court record.

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• Methodology explains coverage, discovery, freshness, redaction, and known caveats.
• Coverage and known gaps lists the gaps we know about and compares the cases we hold with the court's published filing counts.
• The API quickstart covers authentication, row allowances, paging limits, and filter rules.
• The MCP connection guide explains how to connect an AI agent with the same token and allowance as the REST API.
• The data codebook lists served tables, columns, definitions, coverage, and query capabilities.
• Citing Case Harvester explains how to preserve a query and choose the date that matches a claim.
• The public interactive API reference documents ordinary REST access. Authenticated metadata reports any additional fields granted to your account.

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Last updated: September 10, 2026