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