Data · Coverage · Eighth Circuit
The federal record above Iowa practice: 106,753 decisions of the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, its Bankruptcy Appellate Panel, and Iowa's federal trial courts, counted from the live corpus and resolved into Iowa's state reporter, citation by citation.
Counted August 31, 2026
106,753
federal decisions
177
years of decisions, 1849 to 2026
7
states bound by the circuit's holdings
59,371
citations resolved between the federal and Iowa reporters
One circuit above seven states. Iowa is where the library goes all the way down.
Iowa
The full stack. Statutes, regulations, session laws, court rules, and state and federal case law.
Eighth Circuit
Federal appellate decisions that bind Iowa's district courts.
Elsewhere
Not in the corpus yet. Coverage is continuously expanding.
Every count on this page is computed from the corpus itself, not estimated. Where a source is still growing, the row says so.
Appellate decisions
The circuit in full, not an Iowa-only slice: the published decisions of the court whose holdings bind the district courts of seven states, Iowa among them.
99,361 decisions
99,361
Decisions · 1873 to June 2026
Bankruptcy appeals
The circuit's appellate panel for bankruptcy cases, from its first published decisions forward.
1,386 decisions
1,386
Decisions · 1997 to June 2026
District and bankruptcy courts
The Northern and Southern Districts of Iowa and their bankruptcy courts. The backfill toward the present is in progress.
5,367 decisions
5,367
Decisions · 1883 to June 2026
Expanding
Predecessor courts
The circuit courts that heard federal cases in Iowa before the modern system, kept for the lineage of the doctrine.
639 decisions
639
Decisions · 1849 to April 1957
A circuit matters to Iowa lawyers where it touches Iowa law. The corpus resolves citations across the state and federal reporters in both directions, one graph.
46,094
citations from federal decisions resolved to Iowa authority
13,277
citations from Iowa decisions resolved to the federal courts
1,706,400
resolved edges in the citation graph across both corpora
How this page counts
Every figure is computed from the corpus itself, as of the date at the top of the page. No survey numbers, no vendor claims.
Decisions come from the public record of the federal and Iowa courts. Nothing is paraphrased.
New opinions land continuously and new editions are added on publication. When the counts move, this page restates them with a new as-of date.
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