Case Numbering - How to Read and Interpret
Date of Record: March 4, 2008
All cases filed in Cass County Courts are assigned a case number. It is important to keep this number since all records are filed by case number. You can search the public records to find your case number.
All case numbers have seventeen digits as follows:
XX |
XXX |
- |
XXXX |
- |
XX |
- |
XXXXX |
1 - County #; first 2 digits are always 09 for Cass County |
2 - Court Type; see list below |
3 - Date; year and month of filing (i.e., March 2008= 0803) |
4 - Case type; see list below for what types of cases are handled in each court. |
5 - Sequence number; automatically assigned when case is implemented |
CASS COUNTY COURT DESIGNATIONS
Circuit Court |
C01 |
Judge Stephen Kitts |
Superior Court No. 1 |
D01 |
Judge James Muehlhausen |
Superior Court No. 2 |
D02 |
Judge Lisa Swain |
Types of Cases
Circuit | Superior 1 | Superior 2 | ||
AD | Adoption | √ | ||
CM | Criminal Misdemeanor | √ | √ | √ |
CC | Collections | √ | √ | √ |
CT | Civil Tort | √ | √ | √ |
DR | Domestic Relations | √ | √ | √ |
ES | Estates – Supervised | √ | √ | √ |
EU | Estates – Unsupervised | √ | √ | √ |
EM | Estates – Miscellaneous | √ | √ | √ |
FD | Criminal – D Felony | √ | √ | √ |
FC | Criminal – C Felony | √ | √ | √ |
FB | Criminal – B Felony | √ | √ | √ |
FA | Criminal – A Felony | √ | √ | √ |
IF | Infractions | √ | ||
GU | Guardianship | √ | √ | √ |
JC | Juvenile CHINS | √ | ||
JD | Juvenile Delinquent | √ | ||
JP | Paternity | √ | ||
JT | Juvenile Termination | √ | ||
MF | Mortgage Foreclosure | √ | √ | √ |
MH | Mental Health | √ | ||
MI | Miscellaneous | √ | √ | √ |
MR | Murder | √ | √ | √ |
PL | Civil Plenary | √ | √ | √ |
TR | Trust | √ | √ | √ |
SC | Small Claims | √ |