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Explanation of Case Numbers
Case numbers look like the following: 94-C-140 This would mean that this is the
140th general civil case filed during 1994. Case number is year-case type-amount so far.
Case numbers are assigned when a case initiating document is
filed. The case number is entered on the original and all copies of that
document returned to filing attorney or party. It is crucial that careful
control be exerted over the assignment of case numbers so that no two cases are
given the same case numbers and that no case number is skipped. New case numbers
are not assigned to cases that are reopened or cases remanded from the Supreme
Court.
Case Type Codes
- CIVIL
- C = General Civil (includes, but is not limited to torts,
contract case, extraordinary writs, condemnation cases, removals from magistrate
court, and foreign judgments)
- D = Domestic Relations (Includes, but is not limited to,
divorces, paternity suits; annulments, separate maintenance action, URESA cases,
and original petitions for establishment of child or spousal support)
- A = Adoption
- MH = Mental Hygiene
- G = Guardianship/Conservatorship
- C-AP = Civil Appeal from Magistrate Court (Includes appeals in
family violence cases)
- P = Miscellaneous Proceedings (Includes miscellaneous civil
proceedings which do not involve a money judgment, generally require only one
hearing, and usually are presented by petition rather than complaint. Also
includes petitions ancillary to criminal proceedings in magistrate
court)
- JA = Juvenile Proceeding - Child Abuse/Neglect
- JD = Juvenile Proceeding - Delinquency
- CRIMINAL
- B = Felony Charge Bound Over to Circuit Court from Magistrate
Court
- M = Misdemeanor
- F = Felony
- M-AP = Criminal Appeal from Magistrate Court
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