CourtListener research

Search CourtListener's public opinion index and browse its court and judicial person directories as normalized JSON.

When to use this skill

• Search public opinions by text.
• Discover courts and retrieve one court record.
• Browse or look up public judicial-person records.
• Build an initial legal-research shortlist before opening primary documents.

Setup

• Get a Crawlora API key at crawlora.net.
• Set CRAWLORA_API_KEY in the environment before running the helper.
• The helper reads CRAWLORA_API_KEY from the environment and sends requests to https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1.

How it works

Use /courtlistener/search for opinion text search, /courtlistener/courts for court discovery/detail, and /courtlistener/people for public judicial person records. Treat results as research leads and verify legal conclusions against the underlying opinion and applicable jurisdiction.

Full endpoint list: reference/endpoints.md.