Court Listener Search Gem

A simple Ruby wrapper around the Court Listener API.

Useful for querying cases for a given jurisdiction.

https://www.courtlistener.com/

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'court_listener'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install court_listener

API key can be found here https://www.courtlistener.com/profile/api/.

Usage

The params allowed for the general search are the same params allowed in the RESTful API.

https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/

https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v3/search/

  client   = CourtListener::Search.new(<API Key>)

  courts   = CourtListener::Search.jurisdictions_for(state: params[:location])   
  options  = {type: 'o', 
              order_by: 'score desc',
              q: <Query String>}

  options.merge!(court: courts) if courts.present?

  results = client.search(options)