service_events
API table: service_events
Entries recording the issue of court papers for delivery to a party.
Definitions have been recorded for some columns and not others. A column with no definition below has not been documented yet.
A field with a fixed, closed set of values lists that set below. A field with documented codes lists its known values, and shows a meaning for the ones that have been described. Other value lists are not published here. Licensed clients can read them through GET /metadata.
Case Number
API field: case_number
Maryland Judiciary case number that links this service event to case_info.
- Served type
String- Nullability
- Always present on a served row
- Query capabilities
-
- selectable
- filter:
equals
Populated on 100% of served rows (16,842,571 of 16,842,571) and on 100% of records collected since 2026 (8,404,429 of 8,404,429), measured October 15, 2026 at 03:03 UTC
Service Event Type
API field: service_event_type
Type of process, summons, writ, or other service event supplied by Case Search.
- Served type
String- Nullability
- May be null
- Query capabilities
-
- selectable
- filter:
equals - filter:
set - aggregate group
Populated on 100% of served rows (16,842,571 of 16,842,571) and on 100% of records collected since 2026 (8,404,429 of 8,404,429), measured October 15, 2026 at 03:03 UTC
Requested By Legacy
API field: requested_by
Party or office recorded as requesting the legacy service event; policy-protected rows may return null.
- Served type
String- Nullability
- May be null
- Redaction
- Returned as null when the row belongs to a protected person.
- Legacy
- Only records collected before 2026 have a value in this field. Records collected since leave it blank.
- Query capabilities
-
- selectable
Populated on <1% of served rows (769 of 16,842,571) and on 0% of records collected since 2026 (0 of 8,404,429), measured October 15, 2026 at 03:03 UTC
Issue Date
API field: issue_date
Parsed date the service process was issued.
- Served type
Date- Nullability
- May be null
- Query capabilities
-
- selectable
- sortable
- default sort: desc
- filter:
equals - filter:
set - filter:
greaterThan - filter:
greaterThanOrEqual - filter:
lessThan - filter:
lessThanOrEqual - filter:
inRange - date bucket
Populated on 100% of served rows (16,842,571 of 16,842,571) and on 100% of records collected since 2026 (8,404,429 of 8,404,429), measured October 15, 2026 at 03:03 UTC
Service Event Row ID
API field: id
CaseHarvester's own identifier for this service event row.
- Served type
Integer- Nullability
- Always present on a served row
- Query capabilities
-
- selectable
- filter:
equals - filter:
set - filter:
greaterThan - filter:
greaterThanOrEqual - filter:
lessThan - filter:
lessThanOrEqual - filter:
inRange
Populated on 100% of served rows (16,842,571 of 16,842,571) and on 100% of records collected since 2026 (8,404,429 of 8,404,429), measured October 15, 2026 at 03:03 UTC
Generated from the current served catalog.