CourtListener

CourtListener Cited By API

The Cited By API from CourtListener — 1 operation(s) for cited by.

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: CourtListener REST Alerts Cited By API
  description: REST API providing programmatic access to US court opinions, PACER docket data, judge records, financial disclosures, oral argument audio, citation lookup and network analysis, search alerts, and case visualizations. Operated by the Free Law Project.
  version: '4.4'
  contact:
    name: Free Law Project
    url: https://free.law/contact/
    email: info@free.law
  license:
    name: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
    url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
  termsOfService: https://free.law/terms/
servers:
- url: https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4
  description: CourtListener REST API v4 (current)
- url: https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v1
  description: CourtListener REST API v1 (legacy)
security:
- tokenAuth: []
tags:
- name: Cited By
paths:
  /cited-by/:
    get:
      summary: Pulls opinions that cite the opinion
      description: Provides a paginated display of the opinions that cite the opinion
      operationId: getOpinion
      tags:
      - Cited By
      parameters:
      - name: id
        in: query
        description: id for an opinion
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/opinion'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/RateLimited'
components:
  responses:
    Unauthorized:
      description: Authentication required
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            type: object
            properties:
              detail:
                type: string
    NotFound:
      description: Resource not found
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            type: object
            properties:
              detail:
                type: string
    RateLimited:
      description: Rate limit exceeded
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            type: object
            properties:
              detail:
                type: string
  schemas:
    opinion:
      type: object
      description: CourtListener opinion object
      properties:
        absolute_url:
          type: string
        blocked:
          type: boolean
        citation:
          type: array
        citation_count:
          type: integer
        court:
          type: string
        date_blocked:
          type: string
          format: date
        date_filed:
          type: string
          format: date
        date_modified:
          type: string
          format: date
        download_URL:
          type: string
        extracted_by_ocr:
          type: string
        id:
          type: integer
        judges:
          type: string
        local_path:
          type: string
        nature_of_suit:
          type: string
        pagerank:
          type: integer
          format: int64
        precedential_status:
          type: string
        resource_uri:
          type: string
        sha1:
          type: string
        source:
          type: string
        time_retrieved:
          type: string
          format: date
  securitySchemes:
    tokenAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: Authorization
      description: 'Token-based authentication. Format: ''Token <your_token>'''
    basicAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: basic
    cookieAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: cookie
      name: sessionid
externalDocs:
  description: CourtListener API Documentation
  url: https://wiki.free.law/c/courtlistener/help/api/rest/v4/overview