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Case numbers consist of 5 parts that indicate Type of Court, Court Location Code, Case Category, the Year, and the Case Number for the District, Magistrate, and Metropolitan Cases. For the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, the case numbers consist of 4 parts that indicate Type of Court, Court Location Code, Case Category, and sequential listing.
Type of Court: D
Court Location: 202
Case Category: CV
Year: 2009
Case Number: 00052
Type of Court: S = Supreme Court, A = Court of Appeals, D = District court, M = Magistrate court, T = Metropolitan court
Court Location Code: this is up to 4 digits. Examples are Second Judicial District = 202, Tenth Judicial District = 1010 or 1027, Santa Fe Magistrate = 49, Metropolitan Court = 4, Supreme Court = 1, Court of Appeals = 1
Case Category: CR = Criminal, TR = Traffic, CV = Civil
Case Number: For the District, Magistrate, and Metropolitan cases this is a 10-character alpha-numeric field. Case numbers are constructed two different ways, depending on whether the case was filed before or after the year 2000. For the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals cases this is a 5 - character numeric field.
Cases prior to 2000
Although there are exceptions in cases filed prior to 1998, generally the case numbers begin with the last two digits of the year, followed by five numeric digits
Type of Court: D
Court Location: 202
Case Category: CV
Year: 98
Case Number: 00132
Cases filed after 2000
The case number includes the 4-digit year, and then the five numeric case digits. It is not necessary to enter leading zeros
Type of Court: D
Court Location: 202
Case Category: CV
Year: 2002
Case Number: [00]132