Resources for Legal Research : Public Records & Statistics

Automated City Register Information System (ACRIS) allows you to search property records and view document images for Manhattan, Queens, Bronx, and Brooklyn from 1966 to the present

View the digital images of the filed land and legal documents for free. Download and print for $0.50/page.

Allows access to assessment roll data, district information, tax maps, property photographs, past taxes, tax rates, exemptions with amounts and comparable sales. Linked to the County's Geographic Information System (GIS).

Search land and legal records, maps, and trade licenses. Basic record is free, fee for documents

Find birth dates.

Links to free sites, arranged by jurisdiction.

The New York State Office of Court Administration (OCA) provides a New York Statewide criminal history record search (CHRS) for a fee of $65.00. You can submit a CHRS request via the online Direct Access program or by mailing in a CHRS application form.

Find death records.

Find burial sites.

Information on Congressional staff salaries, financial disclosures, earmarks, foreign gifts, and more.

Interactive map, search a state, territory, or province for unclaimed property.

Links to free public record searches in every state and county in the United States.

Portal to official state websites.

Find unclaimed money from bank failures, matured savings bonds, pensions, mortgage refunds, and more.

Searches social networking sites, images, public records, as well as the Internet

Digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Search for old versions of websites.

All companies, foreign and domestic, are required to file registration statements, periodic reports, and other forms electronically through EDGAR. Anyone can access and download this information for free.

Examines, files, and maintains numerous documents vital to business and state government including state and local laws, oaths of office, trademarks, certificates of incorporation, and Uniform Commercial Code Article 9 financing statements. The Division is also responsible for the authentication of public documents for use in other countries.

Forum on child and family statistics.

USA.gov site with links to a wide variety of general statistics by topic.

Census Bureau site, provides economic indicators and trade, country and product data.

Brings records and data from across the federal government to one central location, making it easier for citizens to hold public officials accountable.

Federal, state, and local geospatial data, including maps.

Provides administrative decisions, case filings, legal interpretations and agency directives from the Executive Branch.

Open Data Portal brings together local, state and federal data in one place. Search the site's datasets by location or subject, or explore featured datasets and the full catalog.

41st report in a series begun in 1964. It includes statistics on elementary and secondary schools and postsecondary degree-granting institutions. This report provides revisions of projections shown in Projections of Education Statistics to 2021 and projections of enrollment, graduates, teachers, and expenditures to the year 2022.

Created under the Recovery Act to show the American public how Recovery funds are being spent by recipients of contracts, grants, and loans, and the distribution of Recovery entitlements and tax benefits.

Contains over two hundred pieces of information about each case decided by the Court between 1946 and 2012.

Provides statistics on spending by the federal government.

Examines criminal and civil cases as they are processed through the judicial system, as well as the organizations that play key roles in the judicial process. Several specialized projects focus on specific crimes, offenders, and systems, such as human trafficking, juveniles processed in state court systems, and tribal justice systems.

Collects and analyzes data relating to the work of American courts.

Statistical data on the business of the federal Judiciary. Specific publications address the work of the appellate, district, and bankruptcy courts; the probation and pretrial services systems; and other components of the U.S. courts.

Describes delinquency cases handled between 1985 and 2009 and petitioned status offense cases handled between 1995 and 2009 by U.S. courts with juvenile jurisdiction.

Include caseload statistics for New York courts. Available as PDFs beginning with the 20th annual report in 1997.

Caseload activity beginning with 2009.

Caseload activity beginning with 2009.

Collects and analyzes end of term Supreme Court statistics beginning with 1995. from SCOTUSblog.