Capabilities (as of October 10, 2024)

• 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

  • Retrieve Markdown rich text when available

• 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 DevelopmentCopied!

• Hybrid (Keyword + Similarity) search API

• Hawaii Administrative Rules: Undertaking a digitization effort of scanned images of HI regulations

API RoadmapCopied!

• Bulk APIs for “citation linking” and retrieval of a large set of citations

• Citation Guardrails API - Validate any block of text, human or AI-generated, against actual data coverage (what sections of law actually exist and are effective/not repealed) and court decisions

• Advanced opinion and case law coverage for federal; no municipal coverage planned

• Knowledge graphs of citations to build “hyperlinks” across legal data

• Structured machine-readable tables and images in law data