list_cases_filed

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What was FILED — every case of a given type in a county over a date range. Answers "what IF cases were filed in Surry County yesterday?", "show me the estate cases opened in Wake this week", "how many civil suits were filed in Mecklenburg on Monday?". This is the DOCKET axis. The other searches are name axes — use `search_cases_by_party` / `_business` / `_attorney` when you know WHO, and this when you know WHAT and WHEN. EVERY ROW NOW CARRIES `case_status`, with no `enrich` needed — so do not call `lookup_court_case` merely to find out whether a case is open or closed. The returned text is FINER-GRAINED than the four filter values: alongside "Pending" and "Disposed" you will see "Disposed - Voluntary Dismissal", "Disposed - Dismissal on Order of the Court", "Disposed - Clerk of Superior Court" — i.e. HOW it ended, not just that it did. So never test it with equality against the filter vocabulary (`status == "Disposed"` misses most disposed rows); match on a prefix, and quote the portal's own wording when you report it. `date_start`/`date_end` are the **FILED** date, not a hearing date. A case filed in 2023 can have a hearing today — for "who is in court today", use `get_attorney_hearing_calendar`. Accepts YYYY-MM-DD, or the words "today" and "yesterday" (resolved in North Carolina (NC) time). **Defaults to YESTERDAY, not today**, when no date is given, and says so in `date_note`. Today's filings are still being keyed in by clerks, so a "today" answer is a partial set that reads like a complete one. **`case_type` is a case-number PREFIX, not a type code.** `CR` also returns `CRS`; `CV` also returns `CVD` and `CVM`. Read `case_type_breakdown` before reporting a count as "42 CR cases" — some of them may be CRS. Common types: `IF` infraction (traffic), `CR`/`CRS` criminal, `CV`/`CVD`/`CVM` civil, `E` estate, `SP` special proceeding, `M` civil misc. judgment (liens, lis pendens). **Completeness.** The portal caps a search at 200 cases; this splits the query by date and case-number prefix to get past that. If `truncated` is true the count is a **LOWER BOUND**, and `incomplete_prefixes` names the exact buckets that were not read — say what is missing rather than reporting the number as a total. The remedy is a shorter date range or a county. **An empty result is a real answer, but only when the lookup succeeded.** On an upstream failure this returns an `error`; never report that as "nothing was filed". `county_filter: "server"` means the county was applied by the portal itself before its cap, and every row is additionally checked against the county code embedded in its case number — so a county-filtered result here is exact, unlike the location-substring filter the name searches use. A date range is required (max 31 days) — an unbounded search cannot be completed. Read-only public record, North Carolina only. Informational, not legal advice.