Search court practice
search_practiceFind court practice (teismų praktika) on a legal question or a provision - rulings and judgments (nutartys ir sprendimai) as the courts published them. PASS THE QUERY IN LITHUANIAN, for the same measured reason as search_law: the corpus is Lithuanian and an English query returns confident nonsense rather than nothing. Use the terms the courts use - kasacinis skundas, apeliacinis skundas, ieškinys, nutartis. Filter by court, by decision date, by case type (civil, criminal, administrative, administrative_offence) or by the court's own category code, where 43.5 narrows to that branch of the taxonomy. There is NO way to search by the name of a party: rulings are served as the courts published them, anonymised, and this tool takes no name.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | No | How many passages to return, default 10. Passages, not judgments: one ruling can supply several, each with its own pinpoint. | |
| query | Yes | The legal question or the provision, IN LITHUANIAN, in the words the courts use - `kasacinis skundas`, `esminis pažeidimas`. There is NO way to search by the name of a party, and no parameter takes one. | |
| courts | No | Filter to named courts, written as the court names itself: `Lietuvos Aukščiausiasis Teismas`, `Lietuvos apeliacinis teismas`, `Lietuvos vyriausiasis administracinis teismas`. | |
| detail | No | `compact` (the default) returns each passage with its pinpoint and a ~400-character excerpt around your terms, plus `text_chars`; read the whole text with read_paragraphs(document_id=<row id>). `full` returns the whole text of every row. | compact |
| session | No | The `session` value the sign-in returned. Pass it on every call in this conversation, so the sign-in survives however this client handles connections; omit it when the user connected with Sign in (OAuth) or a key. | |
| category | No | The court's own category code, where a prefix narrows to a branch of its taxonomy - `43.5` is everything under 43.5. | |
| max_chars | No | A hard cap on the answer's size in characters, default 8000. Rows are dropped from the end (the lowest-ranked) to fit, and `truncated` says how many and how to get them; data_as_of, notes and caveats are never cut. | |
| case_types | No | Filter by kind of case: `civil`, `criminal`, `administrative`, `administrative_offence`. | |
| decided_after | No | Only rulings decided on or after this date, `YYYY-MM-DD`. The usual reason to pass it is 'what has been said recently', not 'what governed then'. | |
| jurisdictions | No | Which jurisdictions to search, as codes (`LT`). Omit for the account's own. |