it_cassazione_search
Read-onlyIdempotent
Search live Italian Supreme Court decisions via the official SentenzeWeb engine, matching full-text queries against OCR'd decision text. Filter by year, chamber, and sub-chamber.
Instructions
Full-text search of Corte di Cassazione (Supreme Court) decisions, live.
Queries SentenzeWeb (the Court's own free public search engine) in real time -
no local index. Free-text search matches the decision body (ocr).
Input Schema
TableJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| anno | No | optional 4-digit year filter (decision year, e.g. "2021"). | |
| limit | No | max hits (1..100). | |
| query | Yes | search terms, matched as a phrase against the decision text. | |
| chamber | No | optional, "civile" (civil) or "penale" (criminal). | |
| sub_chamber | No | optional, "lavoro" (Labour) or "tributaria" (Tax) - both are sub-chambers of the civil section. |
Output Schema
TableJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| hits | No | ||
| query | Yes | ||
| total_found | Yes | ||
| dataset_note | No | Source: Corte Suprema di Cassazione, SentenzeWeb (live public Solr search, italgiure.giustizia.it/sncass) - full OCR text, 420K+ decisions (civil + criminal, including the Labour and Tax sub-chambers). Italian Open Data License (IODL 2.0), no authentication. This is NOT the subscription-gated ItalgiureWeb full-database search used by the judiciary; it is the Court's own free public search engine, queried live on every call (no local index to build or refresh). | |
| total_returned | Yes |