CourtListener · Example Payload

Court Listener Opinion Example

LegalCourt DataCase LawPACERJudicialCitationsOral ArgumentsFederal CourtsState CourtsOpen Data

Court Listener Opinion Example is an example object payload from CourtListener, with 14 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

idresource_uriabsolute_urlclusterauthortypedate_createddate_modifiedplain_texthtmlhtml_with_citationsdownload_urllocal_pathopinions_cited

Example Payload

{
  "id": 9876543,
  "resource_uri": "https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4/opinions/9876543/",
  "absolute_url": "/opinion/9876543/smith-v-jones/",
  "cluster": "https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4/clusters/1234567/",
  "author": "https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4/people/4321/",
  "type": "010combined",
  "date_created": "2024-03-15T12:00:00Z",
  "date_modified": "2024-03-15T12:00:00Z",
  "plain_text": "UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT\nSOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK\n\nSMITH v. JONES\n\nNo. 23-cv-01234\n\nThe Court GRANTS Plaintiff's motion for summary judgment...",
  "html": "<p>UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT...</p>",
  "html_with_citations": "<p>UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT...<a href='/opinion/111/'>42 U.S.C. § 1983</a>...</p>",
  "download_url": "https://storage.courtlistener.com/pdf/2024/03/15/opinion-9876543.pdf",
  "local_path": "pdf/2024/03/15/opinion-9876543.pdf",
  "opinions_cited": [
    "https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4/opinions/111111/",
    "https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4/opinions/222222/"
  ]
}

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