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Search the Court. Read the record. Watch the docket.

61,000 opinions back to 1924, 305,000 orders, and the appeals that follow, in one search. Every docket you care about, watched for you.

Plans from $19/mo. Basic needs no card.

Independent research tool. Not affiliated with the U.S. Tax Court.

Product tour, 43 seconds, no audio. A title card, four scenes, then an end card.

  1. Search the Court. 61,000+ opinions since 1924 and 305,000+ orders in one search.
  2. Read the record. The holding, pincites, and a plain-English summary.
  3. Watch the docket. New filings to your inbox.
  4. Deadlines, read from the Court’s own orders.

The end card reads: Start your 14-day free trial.

Sourced from DAWSON (dawson.ustaxcourt.gov) · Tracked dockets re-checked throughout the court day · Research tool, not legal advice
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One search across the Court’s entire output.

Regular, Memorandum and Summary opinions back to 1924. Three hundred thousand orders, the reasoned ones summarized. The circuit, Supreme Court and district decisions that review Tax Court law. Every brief the Court makes public. Results come back grouped by source, filtered by judge, code section, issue, case type, outcome and date, and your Research Trail records how you got there.

  • 61,000+ opinions, 305,000+ orders, 25,000+ appellate and district decisions
  • Filter by judge, § section, issue topic, case type, outcome
  • Saved searches and an exportable Research Trail
Judge§ sectionIssueOutcomeDate
T.C. Memo.
Whitfield v. Commissioner
Substantial authority found for the return position under § 6662(d)(2)(B)(i).
Orders (Pro)
Castellano v. Commissioner
Order denying summary judgment on the accuracy-related penalty issue.
Briefs (Pro)
Meredith v. Commissioner
Respondent’s brief arguing no substantial authority existed for the position taken.
Illustrative example · verify against the full document
Inbox · Today
Riverton Capital Partners LLC
New filing · Stipulation of facts
9:04 AM
Margaret A. Holloway
New opinion · Memorandum
Yesterday
Deerfield Hospitality Group
New filing · Notice setting case for trial
Tue
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Any docket. No appearance. Your inbox.

Track a case you are on, a case you are against, or a case you are simply watching. New filings, orders and opinions arrive live, daily or in a Friday recap, per docket, at the level you choose. Nothing about following a case requires entering an appearance.

  • Live, daily or weekly, set per docket
  • New filing, new order, new opinion, and the Court’s published trial session
  • Track up to 1,000 dockets on Pro
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Read the opinion, not the PDF.

Recent opinions and orders open in a structured Reader: a linked syllabus, footnotes where you click them, page chips for pincites, tables rendered in place, and every cited authority linkified. A Subsequent treatment rail shows what later decisions did with the case, and flags negative treatment.

  • Plain-English AI summary on every modern opinion and every reasoned order
  • Syllabus, footnotes, page numbers, tables
  • Subsequent treatment across 26,000+ authorities
T.C. Memo. 2026-71 · 24 ppMeredith v. Commissioner
Syllabus

P claimed a home-office deduction and vehicle expenses for the year at issue.

Held: deduction allowed in part3; vehicle expenses disallowed for lack of records.

*12Pincite-ready page numbers
Subsequent treatment · 3 later decisions · 1 negative
Illustrative example · AI-assisted summary, verify against the full document
Judge ▾Counsel ▾Document type ▾Disposition ▾Trial held ▾
Harrelson v. Commissioner
Judge Ashford · Stipulated decision
Doyle Manufacturing, Inc. v. Commissioner
Judge Buch · Trial held · Los Angeles
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Who is on the other side, and how their cases have gone.

Docket Explorer searches all 66,000 cases by party, counsel, judge, document type, disposition, whether trial was calendared or held, and how long the matter has been pending. Judge and Counsel Search profile the bench and the bar. Brief Bank puts every public brief in front of you with the counsel who wrote it.

  • Docket Explorer: 347 document types, disposition, trial calendared vs. held
  • Judge Search: exact opinion counts from 1995
  • Counsel Search: 9,500+ admitted practitioners
  • Brief Bank: every brief the Court makes public

Petitions

New

Newly filed Tax Court petitions, from copies Docket.tax obtains from the Court, each with a plain-English AI summary: the petitioner, the tax years, the amount in dispute, the issues and the relief sought.

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Deadlines read from the Court’s own orders.

Every docket you track gets a deadline list built from its public orders, the Court’s trial calendar and the Rules. Every date is set by rule and cites the docket entry it came from. When a later order changes a date, Deadlines updates it, or flags the new entry for you to check.

  • Trial sessions, hearings, pretrial orders, status reports, motion responses, briefing
  • Every date cites its source entry and how it was set
  • All your cases on one page, with a calendar view
ORDOct 2

ORDER: the parties shall file a joint status report on or before November 16, 2026.

Status ReportNov 16, 2026

Joint status report due

NOTSep 18

NOTICE setting case for trial, Los Angeles, California session.

Trial SessionFeb 1, 2027

Trial — Los Angeles, California

Illustrative example · rule-based, from the public record · verify against the Court’s orders
Firm Enterprise

Your firm’s whole Tax Court caseload, in one monitored list.

Contract-billed, no card. Every attorney gets Pro; seats are set by your agreement and the account owner invites colleagues. Firm Admins manage the shared firm docket list. Evaluate with two to five named attorneys first; the account converts in place when you sign.

Pricing

Simple, honest pricing.

14-day free trial on Basic & Pro. Billed monthly, cancel anytime.

Basic
$19/month
14-day free trial · no credit card
For petitioners and individuals following a single Tax Court case.
  • 1 tracked Tax Court docket
  • Case timeline built from the docket record
  • Deadlines from the Court’s orders
  • Email alerts for new opinions
  • Opinion database access
Start Free Trial
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Pro
$59/month
14-day free trial · credit card required
For attorneys, CPAs, and enrolled agents managing active Tax Court matters.
  • Everything in Basic
  • Track up to 1,000 dockets
  • Counsel & Judge Search
  • Order database access
  • Brief Bank — searchable public briefs
  • Docket Explorer — search every Tax Court case
  • Appeal tab on tracked cases
  • AI summaries of reasoned orders
  • Secure docket-document uploads
  • Order alerts & digests by email
Start Free Trial
Team
$225/month
for 3 users · +$70/user beyond 3
Credit card required
For small firms and practice groups that need shared access and team tracking.
  • Everything in Pro
  • 3 included user seats
  • Shared docket access & team tracking
  • Custom groups for the team’s dockets
  • Tracked-case management for admins
  • Deadlines export (.txt, .csv, .ics)
  • +$70/month per additional user
Get Started

Whole firm or practice group? Firm Enterprise is contract-billed and custom-quoted — schedule a demo. Low Income Taxpayer Clinics receive discounted access (verified via IRS Pub. 4134) — contact sales.

Search the whole court. Watch the cases that matter.

Fourteen days free. Basic needs no card.

Independent research tool. Docket.tax is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with the U.S. Tax Court or the IRS. AI summaries may contain errors, and deadline lists may be incomplete; verify both against official records at dawson.ustaxcourt.gov.