Courtlistener: Search Opinions
Courtlistener via Parse · Government & Public Sector
Full-text search over published court opinions (case law). Returns case metadata, judge, citations, and opinion snippets. Results are ordered by the chosen sort and auto-iterated across cursor pages. Search court opinions and RECAP docket documents on CourtListener, a free legal research platform covering 471 jurisdictions. Fulfilled by Parse from www.courtlistener.com.
- b2b-directory
- courtlistener
- government-public
- news-media
- parse
- platform-key
- www-courtlistener-com
Price and execution
- Price
- $0.02 USD credits / call
- Trust tier
- Indexed
- Execution
- Managed call
- Capability group
- Government & Public Sector
Interface snapshot
- Protocol
- HTTP operation
- Operation
- GET /scraper/88233e56-1cfa-4862-9b8d-2c01f691ee9e/search_opinions
- Interface artifact
- sha256:2f7965eec5b88bc75852561fbad581c070488b03c837383af097fbb94cc23796
- Manifest digest
- sha256:9c01961c19c8cde36c81d9728899c657dda71204240d231575ab4e26f4f06a4f
Request fields
- page (integer): Page number for results pagination.
- query (string, required): Full-text search query (supports Boolean operators).
- order_by (string): Sort order for results.: Allowed values: relevance, date_filed_desc, date_filed_asc, cite_count_desc, cite_count_asc
- filed_after (string): ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD). Only return opinions filed on or after this date.
- filed_before (string): ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD). Only return opinions filed on or before this date.