Spanish Case Law Search: CENDOJ Rulings & Jurisprudencia

Search Spanish court rulings in CENDOJ, the official case-law database of the Spanish judiciary (Consejo General del Poder Judicial), with no login and no API key, and get a case-law report for every search:

• Every ruling: ROJ, ECLI, type (sentencia, auto, acuerdo), court, chamber, city, date, resolution and appeal numbers, judge (ponente), language, CENDOJ's summary and the link to the full text
• Past the 200-result limit: CENDOJ shows at most 200 rulings per search; sorted by date, this Actor splits large searches into date ranges and reads thousands of rulings, newest first
• Filters: jurisdiction, court, type of ruling, autonomous community, date range, judge, language
• Report per search over every match, not only the rulings read: trend by year, jurisdictions, courts, types of ruling, regions, cities, the judges who rule most on the topic, and the latest rulings

What does this CENDOJ scraper do?

CENDOJ · "cláusula suelo" · 127,488 rulings
 2025: 8,009 rulings (-13.7% on 2024, -54% on 2020) · peak year 2021
 Civil 99.9% · Audiencias Provinciales 89.2% · Andalucía 22.5%
 Latest: SAP HU 571/2026, 30 September 2026

1. Enter search terms in Spanish ("despido improcedente", "cláusula suelo"); quotes find the exact phrase.
2. Pick filters: jurisdiction, court, type of ruling, region, dates, judge, language.
3. You get one row per ruling and one report per search.

flowchart LR
    A[Search terms] --> C[CENDOJ<br/>case-law search]
    B[Filters<br/>jurisdiction, court,<br/>region, dates, judge] --> C
    C --> D[Rulings<br/>ROJ, ECLI, court,<br/>judge, date, summary]
    C --> E[Report<br/>every match: years,<br/>courts, regions,<br/>judges]

Who is it for?

• Lawyers and law firms: the latest rulings on your issue, how each court and region decides, which judges handle it most
• Legal researchers and academics: thousands of rulings with clean metadata for analysis, and the trend of a legal issue over 40 years
• Legal tech and AI teams: a steady feed of new Spanish case law with ROJ, ECLI and summaries for search, RAG or classification
• Compliance, insurers and banks: litigation volume on topics like cláusula suelo, accidents or responsabilidad patrimonial, by court and region
• Journalists: how many rulings on a topic, where, and how it is changing

What data do you get?

Rulings (dataset, one row per ruling)

Field	What it tells you
roj, ecli	CENDOJ's ROJ reference and the European Case Law Identifier
resolutionType	Sentencia, Auto or Acuerdo
court, courtLevel, chamber	The court ("TSJ Aragón", "AP Madrid", "TS"), its level and, for the Supreme Court, the Sala
city	Where the court sits
date	Date of the ruling
resolutionNumber, appealNumber	Nº de resolución and Nº de recurso
judge	The ponente
language	es, ca, gl or eu
summary	CENDOJ's summary of the ruling
url, reference	Link to the ruling in CENDOJ, and its internal reference

Report (REPORTS, one per search, counting every match)

Field	What it tells you
totalMatches, rulingsRead	How many rulings match, and how many were read
trend	This year so far and its pace, last full year, change on the year before and over 5 years, peak year
byYear	Rulings per year, every year
byJurisdiction, byResolutionType	Civil, penal, contencioso, social; sentencias and autos
byCourt	Which courts rule on it
byRegion, topCities	Where
topJudges, judgesWithRulings	The judges who wrote most rulings on it
latestRulings	The 10 newest rulings with summary and link

Example: 3 October 2026

Six topics, exact phrase, 200 newest rulings each: 1,200 rulings and 6 reports in 3 minutes 12 seconds.

Topic	Rulings in CENDOJ	2025	vs 2020	Main jurisdiction	Main court
Violencia de género	204,938	17,806 (peak year)	+18%	Penal 86%	Audiencias Provinciales 88%
Responsabilidad patrimonial	172,709	7,042	+49%	Contencioso 84%	TSJ, Sala de lo Contencioso 55%
Despido improcedente	161,432	5,713	-39%	Social 93%	TSJ, Sala de lo Social 67%
Cláusula suelo	127,488	8,009	-54%	Civil 99.9%	Audiencias Provinciales 89%
Accidente de tráfico	109,469	2,869	-21%	Civil 49%	Audiencias Provinciales 69%
Propiedad horizontal	97,079	3,139	-17%	Civil 91%	Audiencias Provinciales 83%

• Violencia de género cases hit a record in 2025; responsabilidad patrimonial claims are up by half since 2020.
• Cláusula suelo litigation is down 54% from 2020 but still produced 8,009 rulings in 2025.
• A single search for "despido" read 3,000 rulings in 1 minute 47 seconds, four months of case law, past CENDOJ's 200-result cap.

Pricing

$0.001 per ruling and $0.02 per search report.

• 200 rulings with a report: $0.22
• The run above (1,200 rulings, 6 reports): $1.32
• 3,000 rulings with a report: $3.02

Turn off reports to pay for rulings only.

Good to know

• Search terms work like CENDOJ's own search: several words find rulings with all of them (same as Y), O finds either word, NO leaves a word out, and quotes find the exact phrase. "despido improcedente" matches 263,200 rulings; with quotes, 161,432.
• More than 200 rulings: sorted by date, the Actor reads newest first through date ranges. Sorted by relevance, CENDOJ stops at 200. If a single day holds more than 200 matching rulings, CENDOJ shows 200 of those, and RUN_SUMMARY says so.
• Report counts cover every match CENDOJ finds for the search, not only the rulings read.
• Full text: each ruling links to its full text in CENDOJ. CENDOJ puts its bulk PDF downloads behind a captcha, so the dataset carries the summary, not the full text.
• Privacy: CENDOJ publishes rulings with the parties anonymised. Judges are named as in the official record.
• Reuse: CENDOJ data belongs to the Consejo General del Poder Judicial; commercial reuse of its rulings can require the CGPJ's permission. Check the CGPJ's reuse conditions for your use.
• Data comes from CENDOJ's public search at poderjudicial.es. Not affiliated with the CGPJ or CENDOJ.

Input

Field	Meaning
Search terms	One search each; empty = search by filters only
Jurisdiction	Civil, penal, contencioso-administrativo, social, militar, especial
Courts	Tribunal Supremo, Audiencia Nacional, TSJ, Audiencias Provinciales, and first-instance courts by type
Type of ruling	Sentencia, auto, acuerdo
Regions	Autonomous communities
Ruling date from / to	Date range
Judge (ponente)	Full name as CENDOJ lists it
Language	Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Basque
Sort	Newest first (reads past 200) or most relevant (up to 200)
Rulings per search	1 to 10,000 (default 200)
Reports	On by default

Integrations

Export to JSON, CSV, Excel or Google Sheets, or connect through the Apify API, webhooks, Make, Zapier and n8n. Schedule it daily with a date range to get every new ruling on your topics.