Legal Opinion Citation Extractor

Give me plain UTF-8 opinion text, or a public HTTP(S) text URL, and I reliably return normalized supported full case citations with the exact source citation, offsets, paragraph number, and page number when the text uses form-feed page markers. Supported forms are full Case v. Case, volume reporter page[, pinpoint] (court/year) citations; unsupported patterns are omitted rather than claimed as normalized.

Submit one or more sources through the items array. Each item may contain rawText, sourceUrl, or fileUrl; rawText takes precedence when supplied. A failed item is isolated from successful siblings.

Output and repeatability

The default dataset contains one record per supported citation. Records include stable document and citation identifiers, SHA-256 hashes, exact source offsets, source provenance, and deterministic citation order for identical input text.

The default key-value store record SUMMARY contains the aggregate run status, submitted-document count, total citation count, per-document outcomes, and a UTC processedAt timestamp. processedAt is volatile metadata; it is not part of stable citation identity.

Supported reporter spellings are limited to U.S./U. S., S. Ct., F.2d, F.3d, F.4th, F. Supp., F. Supp. 2d, F. Supp. 3d, and Mass.. The Actor removes the tested sentence lead-ins See, In, Compare, Under, Accord, and Contra from case names.

Limitations: it does not support short forms, id./supra, statutes, regulations, neutral citations, slip-opinion citation formats, parallel citations, ranges, en/em dashes in pinpoints, Bluebook completeness, OCR/PDF parsing, or jurisdiction-specific rules beyond the listed reporter forms. Unsupported reporter formats are omitted rather than returned as normalized.

Billing and limits

One document-converted event is charged only after a document produces supported output saved to the dataset. Empty or failed documents are not charged. Apify platform costs are included in the per-document price; no Actor-start or automatic dataset-item event is currently configured. Up to 25 documents, 2 MB UTF-8 text per document, and a 120-second run timeout. The Actor stops at the spending limit. Public text downloads must be accessible without credentials.

Current prices per useful document saved (verified October 24, 2026): Free/Bronze $0.005, Silver $0.0049, Gold and above $0.0048. Apify platform costs are included in these prices. The live Pricing tab is authoritative.

The Actor uses limited permissions and Standby is disabled. A successful run or charged event does not prove an independent payment, received creator payout, or positive margin.