Case number format guide

South Carolina Judicial Branch Public Index 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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South Carolina Judicial Branch Public Index

South Carolina county public indexes and available magistrate or municipal court records

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Case number · Party name · Filing or event date

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Case number format
General Sessions and Common Pleas numbers use YYYY + two-letter court type + two-digit county code + five-digit case ID. Summary-court numbers use YYYY + A + two-digit county code + eight-digit case ID.

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County-based public case index with partial summary-court coverage; nonpublic records are excluded

Choose a county before searching the official public index. The court help documents case-number structures for General Sessions, Common Pleas, Master-in-Equity, magistrate, and municipal records.

Municipal coverage is limited to participating courts, and JavaScript and cookies are required. Confidential or sealed matters are excluded; home addresses stopped appearing in the public index on January 1, 2026.

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Jurisdiction
South Carolina county public indexes and available magistrate or municipal court records

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South Carolina Judicial Branch Public Index

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Why this inference
- Matches the documented South Carolina trial-case signal: year, court marker, county code, and fixed-length case ID format for South Carolina Judicial Branch Public Index. Official evidence

Officially documented format evidence

Case-number cues for South Carolina Judicial Branch Public Index

General Sessions and Common Pleas numbers use YYYY + two-letter court type + two-digit county code + five-digit case ID. Summary-court numbers use YYYY + A + two-digit county code + eight-digit case ID.

Published examples

2022GS0301223
2018CP1100108
2016A2210500039

Signals used by this matcher

South Carolina trial-case signal: year, court marker, county code, and fixed-length case ID

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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01 State / state South Carolina Judicial Branch Public Index South Carolina county public indexes and available magistrate or municipal court records Search byCase number · Party name · Filing or event date CostNo public-index search fee stated Verified2026-07-22

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Case number guidance: General Sessions and Common Pleas numbers use YYYY + two-letter court type + two-digit county code + five-digit case ID. Summary-court numbers use YYYY + A + two-digit county code + eight-digit case ID.

The Judicial Branch provides the county-selection public index without stating a separate search fee. Copy, certification, filing, and clerk services are separate.

Municipal coverage is limited to participating courts, and JavaScript and cookies are required. Confidential or sealed matters are excluded; home addresses stopped appearing in the public index on January 1, 2026.

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How to use the South Carolina Judicial Branch Public Index 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

South Carolina Judicial Branch Public Index handles South Carolina county public indexes and available magistrate or municipal court records.

Search methods

The verified official entry supports case number, party name, and filing or event date.

Fees

No public-index search fee stated.

Access

No account required for public index search.

Format

Published numbering evidence includes example 2022GS0301223.

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.

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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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South Carolina Judicial Branch Public Index still controls accepted search methods, registration, fees, and record access. Latest verification on this route: 2026-07-22.

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