Supreme Justia Com

Justia Supreme Court Opinions Access Skill

Fetches U.S. Supreme Court opinions from Justia's comprehensive database at supreme.justia.com.

Features

• Year Index: Get all cases from a specific term year (e.g., 2024, 2025)
• Volume Index: Get all cases from a U.S. Reports volume (e.g., 605, 600)
• Case Details: Get detailed information about a specific case including:
  • Case title and citation
  • Docket number and important dates (granted, argued, decided)
  • Opinion text snippets
  • Official PDF download links
  • Related materials (briefs, filings)

Usage Examples

Get cases from a year

{
  "function": "get_year_cases",
  "year": 2025
}

Returns all Supreme Court opinions from 2025 with:

• Case titles and docket numbers
• Decision dates
• Whether Justia summaries/annotations are available

Get a specific case

{
  "function": "get_case",
  "volume": "605",
  "docket": "24-394"
}

Returns detailed case information for OK Charter School Board v. Drummond:

• Full citation (605 U.S. ___ (2025))
• Important dates
• Opinion content (majority, concurrences, dissents)
• PDF links to official opinions

Get cases from a volume

{
  "function": "get_volume_cases",
  "volume": "600"
}

Returns all cases in U.S. Reports volume 600.

Data Structure

Year Index Response

{
  "success": true,
  "year": 2025,
  "url": "https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/year/2025.html",
  "total": 62,
  "page_title": "Opinions from 2025",
  "cases": [
    {
      "volume": "607",
      "docket": "25-180",
      "title": "Doe v. Dynamic Physical Therapy, LLC",
      "date": "December 8, 2025",
      "has_justia_summary": true,
      "has_justia_annotation": true,
      "url": "https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/607/25-180/"
    }
  ]
}

Case Detail Response

{
  "success": true,
  "volume": "605",
  "docket": "24-394",
  "url": "https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/605/24-394/",
  "title": "OK Charter School Board v. Drummond, 605 U.S. ___ (2025)",
  "citation": {
    "volume": "605",
    "page": "___",
    "year": "2025",
    "full": "605 U.S. ___ (2025)"
  },
  "docket_number": "24-394",
  "granted_date": "January 24, 2025",
  "argued_date": "April 30, 2025",
  "decided_date": "May 22, 2025",
  "opinions": [
    {
      "type": "per_curiam",
      "tab_id": "tab-opinion-5054092",
      "length": 876,
      "snippet": "The judgment is affirmed by an equally divided Court..."
    }
  ],
  "official_pdf": "https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24-394_9p6b.pdf"
}

Opinion Types

The skill identifies the following opinion types:

• majority - Opinion of the Court
• per_curiam - Per Curiam opinion
• concurrence - Concurring opinion
• dissent - Dissenting opinion
• unknown - Could not determine type

Notes

• The site is protected by Cloudflare, so this skill uses curl_cffi with Safari impersonation to access the pages.
• The docket parameter format is typically YY-NNN (e.g., "24-394", "23-1122").
• U.S. Reports volumes are sequential (currently around 605-607 for 2024-2025 terms).
• Year indices group cases by the Court's term year (October to June/July).
• PDF links point to the official Supreme Court website (supremecourt.gov).

Dependencies

• curl_cffi - Required for Cloudflare bypass
• beautifulsoup4 - HTML parsing