Legal research search

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Search helps you find relevant legal documents without browsing every collection manually. Enter an exact term, a legal concept or a description of your problem, then review the matching source documents and open the full text.

We provide four different search experiences because the best method depends on what you know and how you plan to use the results. Search supports research and discovery; it does not provide legal advice.

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All available collectionsKeyword SearchMatch exact words across titles, IDs, courts, judgment text, citations and annotations.Best forA known case title, citation, judge, person, organisation or exact legal phrase.Why use itPreserves Flask's Supreme Court All Fields search and lets you target a specific field.Try “Kesavananda Bharati or basic structure doctrine”Open Keyword Search →Supreme Court decisions onlyGeneral Semantic SearchMatch legal meaning instead of only exact wording.Best forExploring a legal concept when you do not know the case name or exact terminology.Why use itFinds conceptually related decisions and supports research filters such as a year range.Try “When can privacy be restricted for public safety?”Open General Semantic Search →Supreme Court decisions only · up to 4 resultsLawyer SearchA focused professional legal-research experience.Best forLawyers researching precedents, citations, legal issues, entities and judicial reasoning.Why use itUses the NER-enriched lawyer index and shows a best-matching passage plus a document preview.Try “Article 21 privacy precedents applying proportionality”Open Lawyer Search →Supreme Court decisions only · up to 8 resultsUser SearchSearch using an everyday description of a legal problem.Best forPeople who know their situation but do not know legal citations or technical terms.Why use itSimplifies the general semantic workflow and returns up to 8 results with one helpful preview.Try “My employer dismissed me without giving me a hearing”Open User Search →