French Case Law Search (Judilibre, Cour de cassation)

What does French Case Law Search do?

It searches French court decisions in the official Judilibre open data base of the Cour de cassation and returns clean, structured JSON: full text, summary, ECLI, solution, chamber, legal provisions cited and related decisions.

Courts covered: Cour de cassation, cours d'appel, tribunaux judiciaires and tribunaux de commerce (as published by Judilibre).

• No PISTE account, no API key, no OAuth: just run it
• Full-text search in French with filters (court, chamber, Bulletin, dates)
• Each decision split into sections: facts, pleas, reasoning, operative part
• Ready for legal AI agents and RAG pipelines through the Apify MCP server

Who is it for?

• Legal tech and AI builders: feed French case law into your RAG or agent
• Lawyers, in-house counsel, law students: export every decision on a question in one click
• Researchers and journalists: track how courts rule on a topic over time
• HR and compliance teams: monitor new labour-law decisions (chambre sociale)

How to use it

1. Type your search terms in French, for example clause de non-concurrence contrepartie financière.
2. Pick the courts, and optionally chambers, Bulletin-only and a date range.
3. Run, then export to JSON, CSV or Excel, or call it via API or MCP.

You can also fetch known decisions directly with decisionIds.

Input example

{
  "query": "licenciement faute grave abandon de poste",
  "jurisdictions": ["cc"],
  "chambers": ["soc"],
  "publishedOnly": true,
  "dateStart": "2020-01-01",
  "sortBy": "date",
  "maxResults": 20,
  "includeFullText": true
}

Output fields

id, url, jurisdiction, chamber, number, ecli, decisionDate, solution, publication, summary, themes, highlights, and with full text: text, sections (introduction, facts, pleas, reasoning, operativePart), legalProvisionsCited, relatedDecisions, contestedDecision.

Pricing

Pay per event:

• $0.003 per decision returned
• +$0.007 per decision with full text and sections (optional add-on)

A fully structured decision costs $0.01. Set a maximum charge per run and the Actor stops cleanly when it is reached.

Data source and licence

Decisions come from the Judilibre API of the Cour de cassation, published as open data under the Licence Ouverte 2.0 (Etalab) through the PISTE government portal. Decisions are pseudonymised by the Cour de cassation before publication. This Actor does not modify their content, and every record carries its source, court, formation, seat, decision date and last update date, as the reuse terms require.

Reuse terms you must respect (Cour de cassation open data terms): do not alter the decisions or distort their meaning, always credit the Cour de cassation open data base with the last update date, and never use the data to evaluate, compare or predict the professional practices of identified judges or court clerks (forbidden by article L. 111-13 of the French Code de l'organisation judiciaire).

Use with AI agents (MCP)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": { "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=klyve1/france-case-law" }
  }
}

En français

Recherchez la jurisprudence française (Cour de cassation, cours d'appel, tribunaux) dans la base officielle Judilibre, sans compte PISTE : texte intégral, sommaire, ECLI, solution, visas, rapprochements, et découpage en motifs et dispositif. Idéal pour les avocats, juristes, legaltechs et agents IA juridiques.