API Capabilities

Capabilities

  • Statutes and Regulations

    • Retrieve statutes and regulation text and metadata by Bluebook citation

      • Get a deep-link to the legal text on a lightly branded OpenLaws webpage

    • BM25 Keyword Search in law names, body, and annotations for maximum accuracy

    • Drilldown API (Division by path) to build legal research and law browsing functionality in your product

    • Retrieve Markdown rich text with structured data for nested ordered lists for pincite/parenthetical citations

    • (Enterprise) Retrieve rendered HTML with TailwindCSS style for embedding into your web interfaces

    • (Enterprise) Retrieve Divisions that have changed after a provided date (within the last 90 days) within a path.

  • Published case law opinions (plaintext only)

    • Search by Bluebook citations (volume number + reporter + first page number)

    • BM25 Keyword search

    • Filter by:

      • Jurisdiction

      • Court

      • Filed Date

      • Federal circuit

Currently in Development

  • Non-Bluebook citation parsing to parse state-specific citations formats (ex: Texas Greenbook, NY Tanbook, California Style Manual) and federal agency formats (ex: IRC and FAR)

  • Standardized Bluebook citations for all “leaf” Divisions

  • Search within a Title or Compilation

Currently in User Research

  • Semantic search API

  • Court Rules for Top 10 Jurisdictions

Last Updated as of March 24, 2026