District Courts Prefixes
District Court case or docket numbers are constructed using four main components:
- City prefix
- One or Two-character prefix indicating the type of case
- Two-digit year the case was filed (99, 00, 01, 02, etc.)
- Sequential number of the case (1, 2, 3, 4, etc.)
Available City Code Prefixes
- AD - Arkadelphia (Clark County)
- BA - Batesville (Independence County)
- CN - Clinton (Van Buren County)
- CW - Conway (Faulkner County)
- DA - Damascus (Van Buren County)
- GB - Greenbrier (Faulkner County)
- GY - Guy (Faulkner County)
- HT - Hot Springs (Garland County)
- LR - Little Rock (Pulaski County)
- MN - Mena (Polk County)
- MV - Malvern (Hot Spring County)
- MX - Mayflower (Faulkner County)
- ON - Marion (Crittenden County)
- PC - Pulaski County
- SE - Searcy (White County)
- VA - Van Buren (Crawford County)
- VI - Vilonia (Faulkner County)
- WM - West Memphis (Crittenden County)
- Common case type prefixes:
- C (City Docket case)
- K (Historical County Docket case) (there may be other historical case prefixes unique to each court)
- S (State or County case)
- CV (Civil case)
- SC (Small Claims case)
- CR (Criminal Department case, Little Rock District Court only)
- TR (Traffic Department case, Little Rock District Court only)
- EN (Environmental Department case, Little Rock District Court only)
The following examples show how a case is retrieved based on the city prefix, case type, filing year, and sequence number in the case ID.
City Docket Cases
MVC-09-100 will retrieve the 100th city docket case filed in Hot Spring County District Court in Malvern in 2009.
Historical County Docket Cases
MVK-09-100 will retrieve the 100th historical county docket case filed in Hot Spring County District Court in Malvern in 2009.
State or County Docket Cases
MVS-09-100 will retrieve the 100th state/county docket case filed in Hot Spring County District Court in Malvern in 2009.
Small Claims Docket Cases
MVSC-09-100 will retrieve the 100th small claims docket case filed in Hot Spring County District Court in Malvern in 2009.
Civil Docket Cases
MVCV-09-100 will retrieve the 100th civil docket case filed in Hot Spring County District Court in Malvern in 2009.
Little Rock District Court Cases
- LRCR-09-100 will retrieve the 100th
- Criminal Division case filed in Little Rock District Court in 2009
- LRTR-09-100 will retrieve the 100th Traffic Division case filed in Little Rock District Court in 2009
- LREN-09-100 will retrieve the 100th Environmental Division case filed in Little Rock District Court in 2009