Use case

Legal Doctrine and Commentary

Search commentary and doctrine alongside primary legal sources to connect analysis with cited legislation and decisions.

API example

Request

GET/sources/search

Query parameters

query: good faith
jurisdiction: ch
sourceTypes: commentary
limit: 10

Result

Example

{
  "commentaries": {
    "results": [
      {
        "id": "example-result",
        "sourceType": "commentary",
        "title": "Example legal doctrine and commentary result",
        "jurisdiction": "ch",
        "language": "en"
      }
    ],
    "pagination": {
      "total": 1,
      "limit": 10,
      "offset": 0
    },
    "tookMs": 42
  }
}

Relevant source types

commentary

Common filters

Combine text search with structured filters such as:

querysearchModejurisdictionregionsourceTypeslanguagepreferredLanguagedocumentTypestatusnumberarticleNumbersourceId

Next steps

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