# French Case Law Search (Judilibre, Cour de cassation) (`klyve1/france-case-law`) Actor

Search French court decisions from the official Judilibre open data: Cour de cassation, cours d'appel, tribunaux judiciaires and commercial courts. Full text, summary, ECLI, solution, legal grounds. No PISTE account needed. MCP-ready for legal AI agents.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/klyve1/france-case-law.md
- **Developed by:** [Nico Klyve](https://apify.com/klyve1) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 95.2% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 decision returneds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

### 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

```json
{
  "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)

```json
{
  "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.

# Actor input Schema

## `query` (type: `string`):

Full-text search in French, e.g. "licenciement faute grave" or "clause de non-concurrence". Leave empty if you only fetch decisions by ID.

## `jurisdictions` (type: `array`):

cc = Cour de cassation, ca = cours d'appel, tj = tribunaux judiciaires, tcom = tribunaux de commerce.

## `chambers` (type: `array`):

civ1, civ2, civ3, comm (commercial), soc (labour), cr (criminal), mi (mixed), pl (plenary).

## `publishedOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Keep only the most important Cour de cassation decisions (published in the Bulletin).

## `dateStart` (type: `string`):

Only decisions rendered on or after this date.

## `dateEnd` (type: `string`):

Only decisions rendered on or before this date.

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Relevance or most recent first.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of decisions to return (search results).

## `includeFullText` (type: `boolean`):

Adds the complete decision text, its sections (grounds, operative part), legal provisions cited (visa) and related decisions. Charged as an add-on.

## `decisionIds` (type: `array`):

Fetch specific decisions by their Judilibre ID instead of searching.

## `piste_key_id` (type: `string`):

Not required. Only if you prefer to use your own PISTE application key.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "query": "clause de non-concurrence contrepartie financière",
  "jurisdictions": [
    "cc"
  ],
  "publishedOnly": false,
  "sortBy": "score",
  "maxResults": 20,
  "includeFullText": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

One row per court decision: metadata, summary and optionally full text with structured sections.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "query": "clause de non-concurrence contrepartie financière"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("klyve1/france-case-law").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "query": "clause de non-concurrence contrepartie financière" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("klyve1/france-case-law").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "query": "clause de non-concurrence contrepartie financière"
}' |
apify call klyve1/france-case-law --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,klyve1/france-case-law"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/XbABFe5lcpcAn8gbf/builds/mBvhSIX0QckBU13Je/openapi.json