Search CJEU/GC Case Law
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Search CJEU and General Court case law — judgments, orders, and Advocate General opinions — by case number, court, case type, keyword, and date range. A case number reaches every judgment, order, and AG opinion filed under it. 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 CELEX number (whose sixth character names the court: C, T, or F), work URI, ECLI, date, and type, plus — parsed from the title where present — the formation, Advocate General, parties, referring court, subject matter, and case reference. The raw CELLAR title is returned only when those fields do not capture all of it.
Input Schema
TableJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| court | No | Court filter, by the court letter at position 6 of the CELEX: CJEU (C) = Court of Justice of the EU, GC (T) = General Court. It does not narrow by record type: every primary record the court filed matches, and its derivative records (notices, abstracts, summaries, corrigenda) join only under include_derivative. Omit to search every court. | |
| 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 matched against English case titles via the full-text index (multi-word input is treated as a phrase), and against CELEX numbers. A keyword that is a whole CELEX (e.g. 62023CO0097) matches that record, its numbered siblings (…(01) to …(20)), its _INF, _RES, _SUM, and _EXT records, and its corrigenda, with notices, abstracts, summaries, and corrigenda still joining only under include_derivative; for every record filed under a case, use case_number. A partial CELEX that opens with the sector and year (62013CJ), the year and type letters (2013CJ0131), or type letters followed by the number (CJ0131, J0131) matches every CELEX that holds it at that position; one opening with letters not followed by a digit (R(01)) tests every CELEX and can take tens of seconds; a bare year (2013) or a fragment opening mid-year or mid-number (013CJ0131, 0131) matches titles only. A keyword with no digit, or with a character no CELEX holds (a space, a period), matches titles only. A keyword with no letter or digit is rejected. | |
| 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 | Number of a single case: C-{num}/{year} (Court of Justice), T-{num}/{year} (General Court), or F-{num}/{year} (Civil Service Tribunal), e.g. C-131/12. Also accepts the case_reference form ("Case C-97/23 P."), any procedural suffix after the year (P, R, PPU, …), and a pre-1989 Court of Justice number with no prefix (26/62). A value naming more than one case ("C-131/12 and C-132/12") is rejected; search each separately. Matches the judgments, orders, AG opinions, and other primary records filed under that number; derivative records (notices, abstracts, summaries, corrigenda) join only under include_derivative. Numbered Opinions and Rulings of the Court of Justice ("Opinion 2/13", "Ruling 1/78") are not reached by a case number; look one up by its CELEX (e.g. 62013CV0002). A value made only of CELEX characters is matched as a CELEX substring instead, case-insensitively: one opening with the sector and year (62014CJ0362), the year and both letters (2013CJ0131), or both letters and the number (CJ0131) is answered from the CELEX index; any other (12CJ0131, 0131) tests every CELEX and can take tens of seconds. | |
| 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, then by CELEX number ascending among records sharing a date, so pages are stable across calls. | |
| 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). | |
| notice | No | Guidance for the next call: on an empty first page, the filters that matched nothing and how to broaden them; on a page with more rows, the offset to continue from. | |
| offset | No | Pagination offset used for this response. | |
| has_more | No | True only when CELLAR returned an additional valid row beyond this page. | |
| truncated | No | True when an additional CELLAR row proves more cases exist beyond this page. | |
| query_echo | No | Echo of filters applied to this search. Useful for diagnosing empty results. | |
| next_offset | No | Offset for the next page. Present only when has_more is true. |