See what DAWSON doesn't show you.
Search 61,000+ opinions back to 1924, 305,000+ orders classified by motion and ruling, and every public brief. Then track any docket and know the moment an order or opinion issues — no appearance required.
14-day free trial. No credit card required on Basic.
Independent research tool. Not affiliated with the U.S. Tax Court.
Five things DAWSON leaves you to do by hand.
Docket.tax is a monitoring and discovery layer built on public Tax Court data — the work practitioners currently do manually, watched and summarized for you.
Research
One search across 61,000+ opinions, 305,000+ orders, 25,000+ appellate and district decisions, and every public brief — filtered by judge, § section, issue, case type and outcome, with a Research Trail.
Not available in DAWSONOpinion & Order Updates
Get alerted the moment a new opinion or order issues on any case you follow — as it happens, or in a daily digest. No appearance required.
Not available in DAWSONAI-Generated Summaries
New and existing opinions and orders distilled into plain language — the holding, the code sections, the outcome — so you grasp a case without reading it end to end.
Not available in DAWSONRule-Based Deadlines
Trial sessions, pretrial orders, status reports, motion responses and briefing dates, set by fixed rules from the public record. Every date cites the docket entry it came from.
Not available in DAWSONCounsel & Judge Search
Search the bar and the bench: 9,500+ admitted practitioners with their cases of record, and every judge with exact opinion counts from 1995. Bookmark the ones you follow.
Not available in DAWSONPetitions
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.
NewSame public record. A very different view of it.
| Capability | DAWSON | Docket.tax |
|---|---|---|
| Docket search | Yes | Yes |
| Full-text search of opinions, orders, briefs & appellate decisions | Opinions only, by keyword | Yes, with filters |
| Track a case without entering an appearance | No | Yes |
| Notification on new filings / orders | No | Yes |
| Deadline list from the Court’s orders & trial calendar | No | Yes |
| AI opinion & order summaries | No | Yes |
| Structured reading view (syllabus, footnotes, page cites) | PDF only | Yes, recent opinions & orders |
| Counsel & judge search | Bar-number lookup | Directory with cases of record |
| Bulk case tracking | No | Yes (search or paste a list) |
| Code & regs with Tax Court citation counts | No | Free |
Docket.tax is a monitoring and discovery layer built on public Tax Court data. It does not replace official e-filing through DAWSON or the need to check DAWSON.
A daily and weekly digest, so you never have to check manually.
Every new Tax Court opinion and order — regular T.C., T.C. Memo., summary, and bench opinions alike — summarized in plain language and delivered on a schedule, plus a full-text searchable opinion database, with AI summaries, of everything that came before. On Pro, that searchable database covers orders and public briefs, too; the appellate decisions that review Tax Court law are searchable on every plan.
From a docket number to a monitored case in four steps.
Add any docket
Search by case name or docket number and start tracking — no appearance, no bar admission required. Add cases in bulk.
See every deadline
Docket.tax reads the Court’s orders and trial calendar and lists each date on the docket with the entry it came from, beside a case timeline built from the record.
Get notified, stay ahead
New filings, orders, hearing dates, and opinions arrive as alerts and in your daily digest — so nothing moves in a case you're watching without you knowing.
Populate the full docket
Upload your own copies of filings DAWSON keeps off the public record. Docket.tax matches each to the exact docket entry by its coversheet — so the complete docket lives in one place.
Start free. Scale by how many cases you watch.
Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial, billed monthly. Basic needs no card; Pro and Team require one.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Everything in Team
- Unlimited seats
- Admin controls
- Dedicated support & onboarding
Low Income Taxpayer Clinic? Docket.tax offers discounted LITC access (verified via IRS Pub. 4134) — contact sales.
Start tracking your first docket in under two minutes.
14-day free trial on every plan. No credit card required to start on Basic.