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Pennsylvania legal research
Research scoped to Pennsylvania, with 6 courts you can name when a question turns on which court hears it.
Courts of Pennsylvania.
Verified against the Pennsylvania judiciary. Only courts that exist in this jurisdiction are listed, and research can be scoped to any of them.
Intermediate Appellate Courts
- Superior Court
- Commonwealth Court
Trial Courts — General Jurisdiction
- Court of Common Pleas
Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
- Magisterial District Court
- Municipal Court (Philadelphia / Pittsburgh)
How research is scoped here.
The jurisdiction travels with the question and is recorded on the answer.
Scope
Pennsylvania by default
Set Pennsylvania on a case file and every question in it inherits that scope until you override it.
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Primary law
Court opinions, codified statutes, retrieved before the answer is written.
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Citations verified
Authorities asserted in the answer are matched against what was retrieved. Unmatched ones are reported.
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Jurisdictions with a comparable appellate structure
Grouped by whether appeals pass through an intermediate court or run straight to the court of last resort.
Limits on Pennsylvania coverage.
Stated plainly, because coverage is not uniform.
- The court list above is verified. Judge rosters, local rules, filing fees and courthouse details are not published here.
- Statute retrieval is search over published law, not a complete copy of the Pennsylvania code. Depth varies by topic.
- Nothing here is legal advice, and no result is a prediction of outcome.