Docket Alarm vs SAFLII

Docket Alarm is a litigation intelligence platform for searching, tracking and analyzing court dockets and documents. The maker says its collection includes over 1 billion dockets and documents from courts in the United States and elsewhere. Search supports full text, Boolean and phrase queries, with filters for court, date range, judge, party, attorney and case type. Users can follow cases, parties, attorneys, firms, keywords and Nature of Suit categories, receiving email updates up to 16 times daily. They can read indexed filings, connect to PACER and bulk-download case documents. Talk to Docket answers natural-language questions about a docket and cites entries and documents. Analytics cover motion outcomes, time to decision and trends by court and judge; Timeline presents docket entries as a visual chronology. The REST API supports case searches, docket and document retrieval, tracking, and natural-language questions. An ECF connection can deliver tracked filings inside the platform at no cost. Plans range from a free tier with five weekly actions to monthly paid options.

SAFLII is a free web repository for open access to legal information. Its collection includes judgments, legislation, court rules, journal articles, commission reports, government gazettes, Rule 16A notices and court rolls. Materials from other countries in the region are also hosted through partnerships and links to other Legal Information Institutes. The SINO search can cover all databases or selected ones, rank results by relevance, and accept words, exact phrases, legislation names, case names or document titles. Boolean and proximity operators are supported. Results can be ordered by relevance, date, title or database, with 10, 20, 50 or 100 results per page. RSS feeds cover selected courts and databases. SAFLII says judgments come directly from courts and some government materials directly from gazettes. No login is required for individual reading, printing and copying allowed by copyright law.