Parse citations from text

Parses legal citations from text and returns structured Bluebook components (case name, reporter, volume, page, year, court). Accepts either a single citation or a full text block.

POST /legal/v1/citations

Parse citations from text

cURL

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.case.dev/legal/v1/citations \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "text": "<string>"
}
'

200

{
  "citations": [
    {
      "original": "<string>",
      "span": {
        "start": 123,
        "end": 123
      },
      "components": {
        "caseName": "<string>",
        "volume": 123,
        "reporter": "<string>",
        "page": 123,
        "year": 123,
        "court": "<string>",
        "pinCite": 123
      },
      "normalized": "<string>",
      "found": true
    }
  ]
}

Authorizations

Authorization · string · header · required

API key starting with sk_case_

Body

application/json

Text containing legal citations to extract

text · string · required

Text containing citations to extract. Can be a single citation (e.g., "531 U.S. 98") or a full document with multiple citations.

Maximum string length: 64000

Response

200

application/json

Citations extracted successfully

citations · object[]

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