How to research the judge assigned to your case
You got your case assignment and a judge's name you've never heard. Here's how to find the publicly documented record — and how to read it responsibly.
See the Record. Understand the Justice System.
Know the Judge.
Know the Judge.
Understand the Record.
The justice system shouldn't be a mystery. Explore judicial histories, understand past rulings, and discover the information hiding in public court records.
Search is free and open — no account required. Data retrieved live from CourtListener by the Free Law Project.
Why JUDGELENS
Built on the public record. Nothing else.
Every judge, every ruling, every statistic on JUDGELENS traces back to a real court document. When the record is incomplete, we say so. We never rate judges, never imply bias, and never show a number we can't verify.
01 — VERIFIED
Real records, real sources
Judge profiles and opinions are retrieved live from CourtListener, the Free Law Project's database of federal and state court records — with links to the original source on every item.
02 — UNDERSTANDABLE
Plain-English research
Lens AI explains what a ruling means, grounded only in the documents it retrieved — with clickable citations back to the source, and it tells you when the record doesn't contain the answer.
03 — HONEST
Analytics with caveats
Every metric shows its sample size, timeframe, and coverage. If we don't have enough verified data to calculate something, the metric says so instead of guessing.
How It Works
From your case to real answers in four steps
STEP 1
Find your judge
Search by name, court, or jurisdiction. Results come from live judicial databases — verified service history and current court.
STEP 2
Read the record
Explore the decisions actually indexed for that judge: real opinions, dates, courts, and citations, each linked to its source.
STEP 3
See the pattern
View analytics calculated only from verified records — with sample size, timeframe, and methodology attached.
STEP 4
Ask Lens AI
Ask what a ruling means or what the record shows about an issue. Get a grounded answer with citations — never legal advice.
The Product
A profile built from the record itself
This is the actual experience. The numbers below are read live from our synced record index — what you see is what the record contains, nothing more.
JUDGELENS — JUDGE PROFILE PREVIEW
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Live Data
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Lens AI
Ask the record a question
Lens AI answers only from retrieved public records — citing every source and flagging what the record doesn't show. JUDGELENS provides legal information, not legal advice.
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Judicial insights, written for non-lawyers
Why JUDGELENS only counts what it can verify
The most dangerous judicial analytics are the ones that look precise. Our rule: if the record can't support a number, the number doesn't appear.
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