Those of you who are really adept at PACER, the paperless system used by the Federal Courts, are probably already familiar with Justia, I find it to be a revelation. Did you know that you can find out exactly how many Social Security cases were filed in the Federal District Courts yesterday? You can. The number was 28. You can tell where the complaints were filed and the name of the plaintiff. You can then go use PACER (if you have an account) to view the complaint and discover the name of the attorney. You can do this for any time period since the beginning of 2004, although, apparently, Justia has trouble if the search would find more than about 50 cases. Also, there is no way to make it count the number of cases for you -- or at least I have not yet been able to figure out how to do this.
I have fixed the bug where the results aren't being counted properly (which in turn fixes it so that you can indeed see more then 50 cases), also just so you know, some of the courts are slow in adding the cases into their system, (sometimes taking a day or two before it shows up) so that if you look at the number of social Security cases filed yesterday now, you get 43 instead of the 28 you got earlier. And if you look back at the day before yesterday, it's up to 51. Last Friday shows 80
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