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Type your query in the box below. Use the DROP-DOWN ARROW to change the scope of your search from the default "Entire Site" search to a more narrow search of subfolders that include Only Supreme Court Opinions, Only All Clerk's Office Documents, Only Administrative Orders, Only Briefs & Petitions or Only Case Disposition Orders.

Search Tips:

If you get too many junk or nonsense answers, try the following:

• Add some more words to your query.
• Decrease the range of the Proximity control. (in the Advanced Options)
• Change the Word Forms control to Exact. (in the Advanced Options)
• Look at the Match Info and see why they are showing up.
• Use the Exclusion Operator (-) to remove unwanted terms.
• If you are searching for a phrase, hyphenate the words together.

• Remove some more words to your query.
• Examine your spelling.
• Increase the scope of the Proximity control.
• It just might not be there?

Search functions for the Florida Supreme Court website are provided by Webinator from Thunderstone. For more in-depth information regarding searching capabilities, please visit Thunderstone's Website.

Definitions on Results Page:

To help you better navigate our search engine, the following terms are defined:

Show Parent

This display shows the pages which are the "parents" or "above" this document. It can help you navigate upwards when there are no go-back links on the page.

Find Similar

The Find Similar link will find documents that are similar to the corresponding result. It does this by reading the original document to ascertain its main subject matter, and then conducting a relevance ranked search for those subjects. Result documents are ordered from best to worst match. The bar graph display will indicate the overall quality of the match.

Note: The document you click on may not be ranked as the best match. This is because other documents may contain more information about the overall subject matter than the original.

Preview Document Matches

Provides a summary of the document information (such as the document size, title, meta data) and the URL of the document along with the matching search terms found in the document.