W.D. Mo. Bankruptcy — Filing Statistics & Case Patterns

Empirical filing statistics for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Missouri: chapter distribution, monthly filing trends, and case volumes from publicly available PACER data via RECAP.

4,485 cases tracked · date range: 2025-04-23 to 2026-04-14

Chapter distribution

ChapterCasesShare
Ch. 72,25950.4%
Ch. 132,19248.9%
Ch. 11280.6%
Ch. 1260.1%

Filings by year

YearCases
20253,139
20261,346

Filings by month (last 24)

MonthCases
2025-04145
2025-05350
2025-06355
2025-07428
2025-08387
2025-09389
2025-10416
2025-11309
2025-12360
2026-01365
2026-02360
2026-03446
2026-04175

Methodology & source

Cases compiled from the RECAP Archive via Free Law Project / CourtListener. Filing data updates incrementally as cases are added to PACER and mirrored to RECAP. Counts here may lag PACER by 1–14 days. For the source case index, see openbankruptcyproject.org/cases/.

Source dataset: /data.json · License: CC BY-SA 4.0