[header] How to read public court records [title] Gather relevant information. [step] To find court records, you will need to know basic information about the court case. A court may have heard thousands of cases over the past few years, so you will need some identifying information so that the clerk can pull the correct file. 
Try to gather as much of the following as possible : [substeps] The case number the name of one or both parties to the lawsuit what kind of lawsuit it was (civil, family, criminal, probate, etc. ) when the lawsuit was filed [title] Visit the courthouse.