search_cases
Search case law
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Full-text search over 10.7M U.S. court opinions (all states + federal, via syfert.com). Call this to find case law on a topic, locate a case by name, or find cases citing a statute. Query syntax: boolean AND/OR/NOT, "exact phrases", proximity (term1 w/5 term2), wildcards (neglig*), and field filters inside q (name:, judge:, syllabus:). Statute-style numbers like 83.49 are matched as citations to that statute. total may be null: a court or date filter makes the exact count too expensive to compute, and total_pages + total_note then carry the scale. partial: true means the time budget was hit; see partial_note. tier names the backend that served the search: pro = the dedicated index, free/anon = the cloud index behind a short queue.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| q | string | yes | Search query. Examples: "premises liability" AND negligence; name:miranda; 768.28 sovereign immunity |
| state | string | no | Two-letter state code (fl, tx, ny, ca ... all 50 states + dc). Scopes the search to that state's OWN courts — supreme, appellate, circuit and county. Federal district and bankruptcy courts sitting in the state count as federal here, not as state courts, so they are excluded; add them with the court argument. Ignored if court is also given. |
| court | string | no | Court id filter, comma-separable, trailing * for prefix. E.g. fla* (all Florida), scotus, ca11, fladistctapp1. Also takes a group token covering a whole set of courts: us-circuits, us-districts, us-bankr, fl-fed-districts, fed-veterans, fed-military, fed-immigration, fed-taxtrade, tribal-navajonation, tribal-cherokee. Use find_court to resolve either. Takes precedence over state. |
| judge | string | no | Judge name filter |
| status | string | no | published or unpublished |
| date_from | string | no | YYYY-MM-DD |
| date_to | string | no | YYYY-MM-DD |
| sort | string | no | Default relevance (authority-weighted). |
| page | integer | no | Page number, default 1 |
| per_page | integer | no | Results per page, default 10, max 20 |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"q": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Search query. Examples: \"premises liability\" AND negligence; name:miranda; 768.28 sovereign immunity"
},
"state": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Two-letter state code (fl, tx, ny, ca ... all 50 states + dc). Scopes the search to that state's OWN courts — supreme, appellate, circuit and county. Federal district and bankruptcy courts sitting in the state count as federal here, not as state courts, so they are excluded; add them with the court argument. Ignored if court is also given."
},
"court": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Court id filter, comma-separable, trailing * for prefix. E.g. fla* (all Florida), scotus, ca11, fladistctapp1. Also takes a group token covering a whole set of courts: us-circuits, us-districts, us-bankr, fl-fed-districts, fed-veterans, fed-military, fed-immigration, fed-taxtrade, tribal-navajonation, tribal-cherokee. Use find_court to resolve either. Takes precedence over state."
},
"judge": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Judge name filter"
},
"status": {
"type": "string",
"description": "published or unpublished"
},
"date_from": {
"type": "string",
"description": "YYYY-MM-DD"
},
"date_to": {
"type": "string",
"description": "YYYY-MM-DD"
},
"sort": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"relevance",
"date",
"cited",
"trending"
],
"description": "Default relevance (authority-weighted)."
},
"page": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Page number, default 1"
},
"per_page": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Results per page, default 10, max 20"
}
},
"required": [
"q"
]
}