Search CJEU/GC Case Law
eurlex_get_casesRead-only
Search CJEU and General Court case law — judgments, orders, and Advocate General opinions — by case number, court, case type, keyword, and date range. By default only these primary records are returned; derivative judicial information notices, case abstracts, summaries, and corrigenda are excluded so distinct cases fill the page (set include_derivative to include them). Keyword matches English case titles (which carry party names) and CELEX strings; there is no full-text body search. Returns each case with its court, date, and type, plus — parsed from the title where present — the parties, subject matter, and case reference.
Input Schema
TableJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| court | No | Court filter: CJEU = Court of Justice of the EU, GC = General Court. Omit to search both. | |
| limit | No | Maximum number of results to return (1–100). Defaults to 20. | |
| offset | No | Pagination offset — number of results to skip. Defaults to 0. | |
| date_to | No | End of date range in ISO 8601 format (YYYY-MM-DD). Leave blank or omit for no upper bound. | |
| keyword | No | Keyword to match against case titles and CELEX strings. | |
| case_type | No | Case type: judgment, order (procedural decision), or ag_opinion (Advocate General opinion). Omit to search all. | |
| date_from | No | Start of date range in ISO 8601 format (YYYY-MM-DD). Leave blank or omit for no lower bound. | |
| case_number | No | Case number in standard format: C-{num}/{year} for CJEU or T-{num}/{year} for General Court (e.g. C-131/12). | |
| include_derivative | No | Include derivative sector-6 records — judicial information notices, case abstracts, case summaries, and corrigenda — alongside primary judgments, orders, and AG opinions. Default false: these are excluded so distinct primary cases fill the page. Ignored when case_type is set (that path already returns a single primary type). |
Output Schema
TableJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| cap | No | The limit that was applied to this page. | |
| cases | No | Matching case law records ordered by date descending. | |
| error | No | Present when the call failed. Absent on success. | |
| shown | No | Number of cases returned in this page. | |
| total | No | Number of cases returned in this page (not a corpus-wide count). | |
| offset | No | Pagination offset used for this response. | |
| truncated | No | True when the returned page was capped at the limit and more cases may exist. | |
| query_echo | No | Echo of filters applied to this search. Useful for diagnosing empty results. |