CourtListener

CourtListener Jurisdiction API

The Jurisdiction API from CourtListener — 1 operation(s) for jurisdiction.

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Operations 1

GET /jurisdiction/ Pulls jurisdictions #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: CourtListener REST Alerts Jurisdiction 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: Jurisdiction
paths:
  /jurisdiction/:
    get:
      summary: Pulls jurisdictions
      description: Provides basic information about the 350+ jurisdictions in the American court system
      operationId: getJurisdiction
      tags:
      - Jurisdiction
      parameters:
      - name: format
        in: query
        description: response format for calls (XML,JSON,JSONP)
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: fields
        in: query
        description: common delimited fields for return fields
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: order_by
        in: query
        description: which field to order results by
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: limit
        in: query
        description: number of records to limit response listing by (1000 max)
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: absolute_url
        in: query
        description: pull the detail for an opinion
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/jurisdiction'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/RateLimited'
components:
  responses:
    NotFound:
      description: Resource not found
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            type: object
            properties:
              detail:
                type: string
    Unauthorized:
      description: Authentication required
      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:
    jurisdiction:
      type: object
      description: CourtListener jurisdiction object
      properties:
        URL:
          type: string
        citation_string:
          type: string
        date_modified:
          type: string
          format: date
        end_date:
          type: string
          format: date
        full_name:
          type: string
        id:
          type: string
        in_use:
          type: boolean
        jurisdiction:
          type: string
        notes:
          type: string
        position:
          type: number
          format: float
        resource_uri:
          type: string
        short_name:
          type: string
        start_date:
          type: string
  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