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OpenCaseLaw — Swiss Caselaw, Statutes & Doctrine

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1M+ Swiss court decisions, statutes & doctrine with citation graph (DE/FR/IT). CC0, free, 42 tools.

Summary by lookupd

Lets an agent search and retrieve Swiss court decisions, statutes, citation graphs, commentaries and legal scholarship across German…

Install

Claude Code, remote (streamable-http)

claude mcp add --transport http swiss-caselaw https://mcp.opencaselaw.ch/mcp

Claude Code, remote (sse)

claude mcp add --transport sse swiss-caselaw https://mcp.opencaselaw.ch/sse

Codex, remote (streamable-http)

codex mcp add swiss-caselaw --url https://mcp.opencaselaw.ch/mcp

Codex, remote (sse)

codex mcp add swiss-caselaw --url https://mcp.opencaselaw.ch/sse

Cursor, remote (streamable-http) → .cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "swiss-caselaw": {
      "url": "https://mcp.opencaselaw.ch/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Cursor, remote (sse) → .cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "swiss-caselaw": {
      "type": "sse",
      "url": "https://mcp.opencaselaw.ch/sse"
    }
  }
}

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Tools (showing 30 of 42)

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• search Minimal search tool following the deep-research search/fetch convention. Returns a ranked list of Swiss court decisions matching a query, each as {id, title, ur
• fetch Minimal fetch tool following the deep-research search/fetch convention. Fetches one Swiss decision's full text by id, returning {id, title, text, url, metadata}
• search_decisions Use this tool to find COURT DECISIONS (Rechtsprechung): 1,040,000+ Swiss federal and cantonal decisions plus ~2,800 ECtHR decisions concerning Switzerland. Full
• get_decision Fetch a single court decision with full text. Look up by decision_id (e.g., bger_6B_1234_2025), docket number (e.g., 6B_1234/2025), or partial match. Full text
• get_decisions Use this tool to fetch SEVERAL decisions at once (1-10 ids) instead of calling get_decision repeatedly. Same data per decision — canonical citation strings, Mar
• list_courts List all available courts with decision counts, decision-date ranges, and language coverage. Use this to discover what data is available. A court's latest decis
• get_statistics Get aggregate statistics about the dataset. Optionally filter by court, canton, or year. by_year counts decision years: the latest years keep rising for months
• find_citations Given a decision_id, show what it cites and what cites it. Uses the reference graph database with 9.65M citation edges. Returns resolved citations with confiden
• find_appeal_chain Trace the appeal chain (Instanzenzug) for a decision. Shows prior instances (lower courts) and subsequent instances (appeals to higher courts). Reconstructs the
• find_leading_cases Find the most-cited decisions for a topic or statute. Authority ranking based on citation graph, so recent decisions rank low (not yet cited); for the newest us
• analyze_legal_trend Year-by-year decision counts showing jurisprudence evolution. Use with a statute reference (law_code + article), a text query, or both. Returns yearly counts wi
• draft_mock_decision Build a research-only mock decision outline from user facts. Combines relevant Swiss case law retrieval with statute references. If possible, enriches statutes
• get_case_brief Structured case brief: regeste, Sachverhalt, key Erwägungen (first 12 only — for orientation, NOT a pinpoint ranking), Dispositiv, statutes, citation authority,
• get_decision_structure Structured decision fields: Sachverhalt (facts), Erwägungen as numbered paragraphs ('1', '1.1', '2.3'), Dispositiv (ruling), Regeste (BGE only). Federal decisio
• get_erwaegung Verbatim text of ONE numbered Erwägung — the citable unit in Swiss practice (e.g. 'BGE 136 III 513 E. 2.3'). Use when the user already gave an e_number. If only
• find_relevant_erwaegung Find which Erwägung paragraph(s) match a legal claim. Server-side FTS5+BM25 over per-paragraph text; returns top-k with confidence labels (high/medium/low) and
• get_article_purpose Return verbatim text from the Federal Council Botschaft (or Erläuterungsbericht) explaining the legislative purpose of a specific article. Joins the verbatim Bo
• search_botschaft Retrieve and quote the VERBATIM text of federal Materialien: Federal Council Botschaften, Berichte and Stellungnahmen des Bundesrates, parliamentary committee r
• get_article_history Chronological story of a single statute article: current text + every linked Botschaft (enacted + amendments) + leading court interpretations + doctrinal commen
• get_regeste Get the official Regeste (head-note) of a Swiss court decision. The Regeste is the court's own formulation of the legal rule established — for BGEs especially,
• check_claim_support Verify whether a Swiss court decision actually supports a legal claim. Uses an independent Sonnet judge to compare the claim against verbatim text from the deci
• attest_response MANDATORY FINAL-STEP AUDIT of your draft answer. Checks five hallucination classes: (1) every case citation (BGE/BGer/BVGer/BStGer/BPatGer/MKGE, FR/IT forms) ex
• cite Get the canonical Swiss citation string for a decision reference. CALL THIS BEFORE writing any case citation in your response. Returns ready-to-embed citation_s
• get_doctrine Get statute text + leading cases + doctrinal timeline + Federal Council Botschaft (legislative intent) + scholarly commentary for a Swiss law article or legal c
• generate_exam_question Generate a Swiss law exam practice question (Fallbearbeitung) based on a real BGE. Returns a fact pattern (Sachverhalt) from a real court decision and a hidden
• get_law AUTHORITATIVE LOOKUP for the text of any Swiss law article — federal OR cantonal. Federal (canton='CH', default): Fedlex mirror, all federal acts (OR, ZGB, StGB
• search_laws Use this tool to find STATUTE ARTICLES by topic — federal (Fedlex mirror) AND cantonal (all 26 cantons; LexFind with canton=, else a local copy), interleaved. N
• get_commentary Look up a commentary on a Swiss federal law article: OnlineKommentar.ch (CC-BY-4.0; BV, OR, ZGB, StGB, StPO, ZPO, DSG, SchKG and more) and, for the BV, OpenLega
• search_commentaries Use this tool ONLY for article-anchored commentary — doctrinal discussion tied to a specific statute article: OnlineKommentar.ch / OpenLegalCommentary.ch (feder
• search_scholarship Use this tool for open-access SCHOLARSHIP (Lehre): OA journal articles (sui generis et al.), OA legal commentaries (OnlineKommentar, OpenLegalCommentary — this

Details

• Version: 1.3.0
• Transports: streamable-http, sse
• Uptime (7 days): 100%
• Median latency: 982 ms
• First indexed: 2026-11-01T08:52:11.786Z
• Last seen in registry: 2026-11-01T08:52:11.795Z
• Repository: https://github.com/jonashertner/caselaw-repo-1
• Website: https://opencaselaw.ch

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