What we cover, in numbers.
A buyer should know exactly what slice of commercial real estate litigation this site sees before relying on it. These figures are computed from the live dataset every time it changes, and the gaps are stated as plainly as the strengths.
| Tracked matters Last dataset update 2026-11-07; 125 added in the last 30 days | 323 |
| Federal court Read from each matter's court name | 76 |
| State court | 247 |
| Docket-linked A confirmed link to the actual docket or opinion; every other matter is sourced to reporting | 53 (16%) |
| Sourced to reporting only | 270 |
| With structured party data Business and government parties recorded as data, not only in the write-up | 320 |
| With a named presiding judge Only where a source names the judge for that matter | 148 |
| With a stated dollar amount The loan, claim, judgment or settlement figure a source states; never estimated | 186 |
| Median lag, event to write-up 47% written up within 7 days of the event; the rest are backfilled older matters | 8 days |
Figures computed from the live dataset on 2026-11-08.
49 states and D.C. have at least one matter. Densest: NY 45 · IL 23 · FL 23 · TX 22 · CA 22 · NJ 13 · OH 13 · MA 13.
18 of those 50 jurisdictions have two matters or fewer, which is presence, not coverage.
- Lending & Foreclosure: 101
- Zoning & Land Use: 77
- Commercial Lease Disputes: 44
- Eminent Domain: 21
- REIT & Securities: 20
- Premises Liability: 19
- Construction Defect: 16
- Environmental: 14
- Landlord–Tenant: 11
The tracker is research-driven, not docket-driven. Two research passes a day search public court opinions, agency releases and legal and trade reporting, then write up every matter that meets the scope. A matter is docket-linked only when a specific, case-matching docket or opinion was found and confirmed; the rest are sourced to reporting. There is no automated feed of new state-court filings behind the tracker, and it does not claim to be a comprehensive record of any court.
The lag figure is the gap between a matter's own legal event and the day it was written up. Older matters are sometimes added deliberately to fill a market or practice area, which is why the median and the within-seven-days share are shown together.
Separately from the tracker, the names a subscriber saves are checked daily against public filings. That check is comprehensive within its stated scope: every new Chapter 11 petition in every U.S. bankruptcy court, new federal civil suits naming a saved entity, SEC Form 8-K filings under Items 1.03, 2.04 and 3.01, and commercial cases in exactly two state court systems, Hillsborough County (Tampa), Florida and the Harris County (Houston), Texas justice courts.
State trial courts anywhere else are not covered. Most county portals sit behind a login, a CAPTCHA, a per-search fee or a prohibition on automated use, and none of those is worked around. Adding a market means either a data license or a clerk that publishes filings openly, and each addition will be listed here when it is live. Full rules are on the methodology page. A security or procurement reviewer wants exactly this kind of page: see the procurement & security summary.