Daviess County Court Dockets
A court docket is the running case log. In Indiana MyCase, this is usually seen as the chronological case summary. It can show filings, hearings, notices, orders, continuances, judgments, disposition entries, and sentence entries. A docket entry is not always the full document. A line may show that an order was entered, while the order itself may be linked, withheld, restricted, or available only by request from the Daviess County Clerk or court.
Daviess County has both Daviess Circuit Court and Daviess Superior Court at the courthouse in Washington. The Clerk keeps county-level case records, while judges and judicial officers preside over the docket events. The state court structure matters because there is no separate Daviess County city court listed in the official Indiana court directory for this county. A local docket search therefore centers on the county trial courts and the statewide MyCase system.
| Item | Docket | Full Case Record |
|---|---|---|
| Format | Event list or chronological case summary. | Documents, filings, orders, notices, and case papers. |
| Best use | Tracking dates, status, hearings, and case activity. | Reading exact pleadings, orders, judgments, and certified copies. |
| Online access | Often visible in MyCase if public. | Some documents are online, but many require clerk or court contact. |
| Official source | Court-maintained case data. | The court or Daviess County Clerk maintaining the record. |
Search Daviess County Dockets Online
Daviess County court docket lookup starts with Indiana MyCase. The public system searches trial-court case information across Indiana, including Daviess Circuit Court and Daviess Superior Court when records are public and available. A user can search by case number, name, attorney, court, county, case type, and filing date range. The exact visible fields depend on the responsive MyCase interface and the case type.
MyCase is not a real-time calendar promise. Hearing dates, docket events, and document links can change. If the issue is an upcoming court date, the Indiana Judicial Branch Daviess County page tells users to contact the local court directly. That is especially important when a hearing is near, a continuance has been requested, or a person is trying to verify a criminal arraignment, traffic appearance, or judgment hearing.
The Southern District of Indiana website is the federal court route for federal Daviess County docket questions, separate from Indiana MyCase.
State trial-court dockets and federal dockets are separate systems, so a search should match the court that actually has the case.
- Open MyCase and select the most useful search mode, usually case number or party name.
- Filter to Daviess County, Daviess Circuit Court, or Daviess Superior Court when those choices are available.
- Use case type or filing date range to reduce false matches for common names.
- Open the case and review the chronological case summary for hearings, filings, orders, and disposition entries.
- Call the Clerk, Circuit Court, or Superior Court if the docket is unclear, old, restricted, or missing a document link.
Daviess County Docket Entries
Daviess County docket entries often use short labels. The docket may show the event date, a filing or hearing type, the party or court action, and whether a document is linked. Some converted events may be brief because older data was moved into the current system. A public docket can also show financial links for eligible traffic or criminal matters, but payment availability depends on the case and court.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Entry date | The date a filing, notice, order, hearing, or other event was entered. |
| Event type | The action recorded, such as motion, hearing, order, judgment, continuance, sentence, or notice. |
| Case number | The cause number tied to the Daviess County case. |
| Court | Daviess Circuit Court or Daviess Superior Court for local trial matters. |
| Party or filer | The party, attorney, prosecutor, clerk, or court associated with the entry when public. |
| Hearing detail | The hearing type, date, time, judge, or courtroom detail when posted. |
| Document link | A public document link if the filing or order is available online. |
| Status or disposition | Open, pending, disposed, dismissed, judgment entered, sentenced, sealed, or other public status. |
The PACER lookup for the Southern District of Indiana District Court identifies the federal CM/ECF court for district-court dockets.
PACER applies to federal filings, while Daviess County trial-court docket entries remain in Indiana state court systems.
Daviess County Courts With Dockets
Daviess County docket activity is split between the local trial courts. The Daviess Circuit Court page lists Judge Gregory Smith, the courthouse address, phone 812-254-8670, and office hours from 8:30 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. The Daviess Superior Court page lists Judge Daniel S. Murrie, the same courthouse address, phone 812-254-8671, and the same split hours. The county page says Superior Court handles all criminal offenses and some previous small claims and civil litigation.
The Indiana Judicial Branch Daviess County page places Daviess in Judicial District 25 with Dubois, Knox, Martin, Perry, Pike, and Spencer Counties. That page links MyCase, e-filing, local rules, district governance, and court statistics. Attorneys are required to e-file in Daviess County, while others are encouraged to e-file. E-filing affects the docket because accepted filings become events in the case record.
| Court or Office | Role in Dockets | Phone |
|---|---|---|
| Daviess County Clerk | Record keeper for county-level case files and copy requests. | 812-254-8664 |
| Daviess Circuit Court | Trial court for local cases, orders, hearings, and docket events. | 812-254-8670 |
| Daviess Superior Court | Trial court identified by the county as handling all criminal offenses. | 812-254-8671 |
| Prosecutor's Office | Files and litigates felony prosecutions and child-support matters. | 812-254-8673 |
Daviess County Hearing Dockets
A docket can show an individual hearing, but general schedule details still need court confirmation. The jail Court Times page lists courthouse hours as Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., closed on national holidays. It also lists initial arraignment hearings as Mondays at 10 a.m. and Thursdays at 8:30 a.m., subject to holidays and weather. That schedule is helpful for people tracking new criminal cases after booking, but the actual case docket and court notice control the appearance date.
Court pages for both Daviess Circuit Court and Daviess Superior Court include an ex parte communication warning based on judicial conduct rules. A person should not try to contact a judge privately about the merits of a case. Scheduling and case-copy questions should go through the Clerk, court staff, an attorney, or the public docket channel. Written communications can be shared with all parties when court rules require it.
Note: A MyCase hearing entry should be checked with the court when timing, weather, holidays, or continuances may affect attendance.
Daviess County Docket Access
Public, party, and attorney access are different. Public users can search non-confidential case information and many public documents. Parties can create an account and request an access code to connect their cases. Licensed Indiana attorneys can sign in with a Courts Portal account, and attorney search results can include public documents in public cases plus some confidential documents in cases where that attorney is counsel of record, subject to exceptions.
That access split explains why two users may not see the same Daviess County docket detail. A public user may see the event list and a final order, while a party or attorney may have access to more documents. Juvenile, adoption, protection-order, sealed, expunged, medical, financial, and minor-related information can be redacted or excluded. The Daviess County Clerk cannot release material barred by Indiana court rules just because it appears in a case file.
The Evansville federal courthouse page gives contact information for the Southern District courthouse serving federal matters from Daviess County.
Federal courthouse contact is useful only when the docket is federal, not when the case is in Daviess Circuit or Superior Court.
Federal Dockets for Daviess County
Federal cases are not Daviess County court dockets, but they may involve Daviess County parties, events, or agencies. Daviess County is in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. The Evansville federal courthouse is the Winfield K. Denton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse at 101 Northwest Martin Luther King Boulevard, Evansville, Indiana 47708. The research lists the district court phone as 812-434-6410 for the Evansville location.
Bankruptcy is separate from the state trial courts and from the federal district court. The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Indiana lists Evansville at 101 NW Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Room 352, Evansville, Indiana 47708, and specifically includes Daviess among counties served at that location. Federal appeals go to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. PACER registration is required for official federal docket and document access, and fees may apply.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit is the federal appellate route for Southern District of Indiana cases.
A federal appeal docket will not appear in Indiana MyCase because it is outside the Daviess County trial-court system.
The Southern District of Indiana Bankruptcy Court handles bankruptcy dockets for Daviess County through the federal bankruptcy system.
Bankruptcy docket entries should be searched through bankruptcy court resources or PACER, not the county Clerk.
The PACER lookup for the Southern District of Indiana Bankruptcy Court identifies the federal bankruptcy CM/ECF court.
That lookup belongs to bankruptcy docket access, while Daviess County civil, criminal, probate, and traffic dockets stay with state trial-court channels.
Read Daviess County Dockets
Docket reading starts with sequence. The earliest entries usually show filing, summons, appearance, charging, or petition activity. Later entries show notices, motions, orders, continuances, hearings, judgment, disposition, sentence, or closure. If the docket shows a dismissal, judgment, guilty plea, or sentence, read the surrounding entries before assuming the result applies to every claim or every criminal count.
Several terms recur. A cause number is the Indiana court case number. A motion is a written request asking the judge to act. An order is the judge's directive. A disposition is the outcome of a case or charge. A continuance is a postponement. A chronological case summary is the docket event list. These terms do not replace legal advice, but they help a reader separate a hearing notice from a final order.
If a docket entry points to a document that is not online, the next step is the Daviess County Clerk or the court directly. The county courts page specifically routes document-copy questions to the Clerk's Office or court. For case questions, use the court phone number tied to the docketed court rather than relying on a stale screen.