Google Scholar Case Law API
Pricing
from $0.01 / 1,000 results
API for Google Scholar US case law. Search opinions and pull full case details with court, year, and citation filters. Returns structured JSON. MCP-ready.
Case-law search query (e.g. 'patent infringement', 'Roe v. Wade', 'First Amendment school speech'). Either query or caseIds must be provided. Supports Google Scholar operators like 'author:' and 'source:'.
Maximum number of search results to return. Up to 20 results are fetched per upstream page; results above 20 paginate. Default 20, max 100.
Earliest decision year to include in the search (inclusive). Optional.
Latest decision year to include in the search (inclusive). Optional.
List of Google Scholar court codes to limit the search to specific jurisdictions. Leave empty to search ALL US state and federal courts. Common codes: '158' Supreme Court (SCOTUS), '159' Federal Circuit, '160' 1st Circuit, '161' 2nd Circuit, '162' 3rd Circuit, '192' US Tax Court, '33' New York state courts. Any numeric code from Google Scholar's case-law filter is accepted.
Two-letter language code for the search interface (ISO 639-1, e.g. 'en', 'es', 'fr'). Defaults to 'en'.
When true, sort results by decision date (newest first) instead of relevance.
When true, exclude bare citation entries from results (only return full opinions).
List of Google Scholar case IDs to pull full case detail for. Each ID is the value of result_id from a previous search. If query is empty, only these IDs are processed.
