Search the Martin County Court Docket

How to Search the Martin County Court Docket

Start at the official Martin County courts hub and then open Indiana MyCase. Pick Martin Circuit Court 1. That label is the active Odyssey entry for Martin County court records. Searching by case number gives the tightest match. A name search needs a last name plus one more person field. Businesses and attorneys have tabs of their own. Once Martin is selected, you can narrow by case type from the dynamic list, by Open or Closed status, or by filing dates.

1. Select Martin Circuit Court 1 in MyCase.
2. Choose Case, Name, or Attorney search.
3. Enter the narrowest known data and filters.
4. Compare court, caption, type, filed date, and status.
5. Open the CCS and request a clerk copy when needed.

When MyCase comes up short, the Clerk's counter, phone, fax, email, and mail all work. CourtCal covers hearings in the near term. Questions about settings and transcripts belong to the Circuit Court. Attorneys file through Indiana e-filing. People without lawyers are not required to e-file. Compiled-data requests go to the Indiana Office of Judicial Administration.

Martin County MyCase Docket Fields

MyCase gives you three tabs: Case, Name, and Attorney. The case tab takes a case number, a citation number, or a cross-reference number. Name search works with a person's name, birth date, or a business name. Attorney search takes a name or a bar number. Advanced controls include All, Open, Closed, and filing dates typed as mm/dd/yyyy. Public results cap at 1,000. A broad Martin County court docket search may need extra filters. That is how you stay under the limit.

Treat any result as a lead rather than the official record. Look-alike names, incomplete conversions, protected cases, and documents missing online can each change what you see.

What a Martin County Court Docket Shows

The Martin County court docket lists events by date in a Chronological Case Summary, usually shortened to CCS. A public summary can include the caption, number, court, case type, filing and status dates, parties, attorneys, settings, orders, charges or claims, financial entries, and disposition data. Some entries link straight to a public document. Others only name a document you must request.

Read entries with care. A motion is a request, not a ruling. A charge is not a conviction. An open case proves no claim, and a closed status does not mean every later duty is finished.

Martin County Court Docket Codes

The active court identifier for Martin is 51C01. Under Indiana Administrative Rule 8, that identifier combines with time, case type, and sequence to build a case number. Felony levels run from F1 through F6. Misdemeanor cases carry CM and infractions IF. Civil matters use CC for collection, CT for tort, SC for small claims, DC for dissolution, and ES for a supervised estate.

Filed date

The date a case or filing was accepted, not always the event date.

Setting

A scheduled proceeding that may later be reset or canceled.

Order

A direction or ruling entered by the judge.

Certified copy

A clerk-authenticated copy used when official proof is required.

The old Loogootee city-court identifier 51H01 no longer exists. If a current number search fails, ask the Clerk to trace an old transferred file.

Which Martin County Courts Keep Dockets

One active Martin trial court appears in Odyssey under current official listings. That keeps the local docket search simple. Still, state appellate, tax, and federal matters sit on separate dockets of their own. Judicial District 25 is only an administrative grouping. It does not push an ordinary Martin case into another county's search. The official Martin local-courts page confirms the current lineup.

The county hub confirms the MyCase route and the active trial-court context.

Martin County Appellate Docket Route

An appeal from Martin Circuit Court starts a new docket of its own. The trial CCS may note the notice of appeal. Yet it never becomes the appellate record. That record lives with the appellate courts instead. The Indiana Court of Appeals has 15 judges and generally hears matters in three-judge panels. Its overview page details the court's structure and role.

The appellate route matters once the latest action leaves the county trial file alone. The Appellate Clerk keeps the appellate record for those cases.

That appellate role is separate from Julie Fithian's custody of the Martin trial-court record.

Finding Martin County Court Dates and Settings

CourtCal lists public hearings in the near term. Choose Martin County. Add Martin Circuit Court if you wish. Pick a date, then narrow by case number or case name. The window runs back seven days and ahead four weeks. Results can include case number, style, court, date, time, hearing description, and judicial officer. No separate courtroom field appears in the display. Check CourtCal against the MyCase CCS too. A reset or continuance moves the setting. A cancellation ends that one event and not always the case. Call Martin Circuit Court at (812) 247-3652 when a hearing is close. The Martin County court calendar page walks through date searches in more depth. Administrative Rule 9 also requires daily court calendars to be available electronically or in another format. Ask the Clerk for the daily calendar whenever the web view falls short.

Martin County Court Docket Technology

Martin court records began in handwritten order books. They moved to microfilm. Odyssey and MyCase came later. The Indiana State Library guide lists historic Circuit Court, Common Pleas, probate, marriage, deed, and related records reaching into the nineteenth century. Gaps exist in some old series. A modern name search cannot prove that no historic case exists.

E-filing arrived in stages. It began voluntarily in Martin Circuit Court on September 6, 2017, then became mandatory for applicable attorney filings on November 3, 2017. E-filing sends papers into the court system. It is not the public search tool. MyCase shows eligible nonconfidential Odyssey data, and CourtCal handles settings. The current Martin Circuit Court page serves as the official reference.

That court page is the official fallback for hearing logistics and for reporter or transcript questions.

Public Access to Martin County Court Dockets

Indiana opens its court records under the Access to Court Records Rules. Those rules sit apart from the general public-records statute. Access is the default. Still, the rules shield certain case types, fields, and documents from view. A caption and CCS can be public while an attachment stays confidential. When data is protected, redaction strips it from the public copy. The court keeps the full version on file.

Strict limits often cover juvenile, adoption, mental-health, treatment, medical, protection-order, victim, witness, and supervision material. A search that returns nothing can mean sealing, expungement, old data, the wrong court, or incomplete search fields. Treat the gap as a dead end, not permission to slip past a restriction.

Martin County Courthouse Docket Location

For a docket trip today, head to the Clerk's public counter. It sits at 129 Main Street in Shoals. History buffs will meet a different address. The National Register record lists the historic courthouse at 220 Capital Avenue, and an older directory places a Circuit Court annex at 111 Main Street. Each source answers a different question. Confirm the entrance and your destination before you drive.

The county meeting page backs 129 South Main Street as the spot for current county business. The courthouse has no published parking map, public-terminal location, Wi-Fi rule, or ADA entrance detail. Courtroom assignments are not posted live. Local rules bar weapons from courthouse areas, subject to stated exceptions.

The building itself has a story. An 1876 fire and several county-seat moves came before Shoals won the seat for good. The 1876 courthouse sits on the National Register. It is one of a small group of Indiana courthouses built without a traditional courthouse square.

The Martin County Clerk and Docket Records

Clerk Julie Fithian keeps the Martin Circuit Court files. Her office verifies CCS entries, pulls public papers that MyCase does not show, and provides plain or certified copies. Payment and filing questions go there too. Ask for the "nonconfidential public CCS and documents." Bring a case number, party, date range, or the exact item if you can.

The official Clerk page posts the office's current contact details, hours, and fee guidance for anyone working with a Martin County court docket.

The source controls the posted contact, fees, forms, and payment instructions.

The listed email is jfithian@martincounty.in.gov. Verify the channel before sending anything sensitive. Copies run $1 per page and certification costs $3 each. Nail down page count, postage, payment, and availability before you mail any funds.

Martin County Court Docket Caseload

Final 2024 state statistics put 1,352 new filings in Martin Circuit Court 1, against 1,301 dispositions. The pending inventory climbed from 1,546 at the start of the year. It stood at 1,627 at year end. Incoming work spanned the usual mix. It included 513 infractions, 149 misdemeanors, 122 civil collections, 71 miscellaneous criminal cases, 61 protection orders, and 44 small claims.

Read these as courtwide reporting totals. They say nothing about convictions, lawsuits, delay, or success. The 2025 workbook is provisional, so resist comparing it to final figures. For any single outcome, you need the actual Martin County court docket and the official file.

Martin County Supreme Court Dockets

The Indiana Supreme Court sits at the top of the state's court system. Its direct jurisdiction covers only a limited set of matters. Ordinary Martin appeals usually start one level down. That court is the Court of Appeals.

That statewide route is separate from the Martin trial-court CCS in MyCase. The two should not be confused.

Keep the state-level docket search distinct from anything filed in Martin County trial courts. The Indiana Tax Court holds exclusive statewide jurisdiction over tax appeals.

Tax Court is not the ordinary destination for Martin criminal, civil, probate, traffic, or family cases.

Court Dockets by City in Martin County

Martin County has exactly three incorporated places, per the 2020 Census table. These are Loogootee, Shoals, and Crane. No separate active municipal court appears for any of them. Current Indiana court and Odyssey listings confirm that. So a county-filed case starts with Martin Circuit Court 1 in MyCase or CourtCal. A city ordinance record or an old ticket is different. That may still require the municipality or the Clerk. This is especially true for anything tied to the abolished 51H01 court.

Burns City and Dover Hill do not count as extra incorporated places in the official table. No fourth or fifth municipal docket page is needed.

Martin County City Docket Routing

The city pages steer a local name toward the right county or municipal source without inventing a court that does not exist. Before you search, gather the citation, case number, party spelling, filing period, and any known agency. For a county-filed case, search Martin Circuit Court first.

A city ordinance matter, an old Loogootee file, or a ticket missing from state tools calls for a different move. Contact the municipality and the Martin County Clerk. Custody and transfer history often decide the answer. A city address alone tells you nothing about which office holds the court docket, so let the official custodian confirm the final route.

Map and Directions to the Martin County Courthouse

Martin Circuit Court files are kept at the Martin County Courthouse in Shoals, the county seat, where the Clerk's counter is the primary point of contact for case files, certified copies, and payments. Current county-meeting notices place the courthouse at 129 Main Street, also given as 129 South Main Street, while the courthouse's own historic National Register listing instead uses 220 Capital Avenue, so confirm the entrance before a first visit.

Weapons are prohibited inside the courthouse under Martin's local rules, subject to the rule's law-enforcement and written-permission exceptions. No parking, security-screening, or ADA-entrance details were published in the sources reviewed, so call the Clerk at (812) 247-3651 to confirm access, particularly given the address discrepancy noted above.