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)
• Hybrid Search (keyword + semantic) API
• Standardized Bluebook citations for all “leaf” Divisions
• Search within a Title or Compilation

Currently in User Research

• Court Rules for Top 10 Jurisdictions

Last Updated as of Sept 10, 2026