Case number format guide

D.C. Superior Court Portal case number format

Use the documented format cues and official entry route below before you try a case-number or party-name search.

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D.C. Superior Court Portal

D.C. Superior Court civil, landlord and tenant, small claims, civil-tax, Auditor-Master, and probate cases

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Case number · Party name · Hearing date

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Most case information is available anonymously

Why this route: This page is already focused on this official portal · District of Columbia matches the selected jurisdiction · D.C. Superior Court Portal matches the selected court

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Court level
District / state

Official entry
portal-dc.tylertech.cloud/Portal

Query methods
Case number · Party name · Hearing date

Registration
Most case information is available anonymously

Fees
Lookup fee not stated

Case number format
The Portal accepts the full case number with or without hyphens. D.C. publishes examples with a four-digit year, a case-type code, a six-digit sequence, and sometimes a suffix; party names use Last, First, Middle order.

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Public civil-side docket information and selected documents, subject to case-level restrictions

Use this Portal for the civil-side case types moved from eAccess in 2022. It provides Smart Search and a separate hearing search.

Most case information is anonymous, while document visibility depends on case type and access rights. Sealed, confidential, or otherwise restricted information is not public; the online display may not be the official certified record.

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Jurisdiction
D.C. Superior Court civil, landlord and tenant, small claims, civil-tax, Auditor-Master, and probate cases

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D.C. Superior Court Portal

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Why this inference
- Matches the documented D.C. Superior Court Portal AMP signal: four-digit year and six-digit sequence format for D.C. Superior Court Portal. Official evidence

Officially documented format evidence

Case-number cues for D.C. Superior Court Portal

The Portal accepts the full case number with or without hyphens. D.C. publishes examples with a four-digit year, a case-type code, a six-digit sequence, and sometimes a suffix; party names use Last, First, Middle order.

Published examples

2020-AMP-000001
2020-CA-005243-H
2020-CA-000001-L(RP)

Signals used by this matcher

D.C. Superior Court Portal AMP signal: four-digit year and six-digit sequence
D.C. Superior Court Portal CA signal: four-digit year, six-digit sequence, and documented optional suffix form

Evidence and limits

A format match narrows a likely jurisdiction; it does not prove that a case exists. Court-specific legacy and transferred case numbers can differ.

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Registration: Most case information is available anonymously
Record access: Public civil-side docket information and selected documents, subject to case-level restrictions
Case number guidance: The Portal accepts the full case number with or without hyphens. D.C. publishes examples with a four-digit year, a case-type code, a six-digit sequence, and sometimes a suffix; party names use Last, First, Middle order.

D.C. Courts states that most Portal case information can be viewed anonymously without registration, but does not state a separate search fee on the current Portal guide. Filing, payment, and copy services are separate.

Most case information is anonymous, while document visibility depends on case type and access rights. Sealed, confidential, or otherwise restricted information is not public; the online display may not be the official certified record.

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How to use the D.C. Superior Court Portal format note

This page turns the published case-number examples and signal cues into a routing aid, but the official court entry still decides whether a search succeeds.

Coverage

D.C. Superior Court Portal handles D.C. Superior Court civil, landlord and tenant, small claims, civil-tax, Auditor-Master, and probate cases.

Search methods

The verified official entry supports case number, party name, and hearing date.

Fees

Lookup fee not stated.

Access

Most case information is available anonymously.

Format

Published numbering evidence includes example 2020-AMP-000001.

Treat the pattern as a clue

The format can identify a likely court level, county, or case type, but transferred, sealed, legacy, or clerk-side numbering can still fall outside the pattern.

Confirm the owning court

Use the related county or state guide to verify the filing venue before assuming that one number format covers every court in the jurisdiction.

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D.C. Superior Court Portal still controls accepted search methods, registration, fees, and record access. Latest verification on this route: 2026-07-22.

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