LAW.co · Legal
LAW.co AI Case Summaries
LAW.co-generated plain-language summary, holding, key issues, topics and procedural posture for a prominence-selected subset of cases. Only enrichment that passed LAW.co's QA gate (published / approved / auto) is exposed. Machine-generated; not citable as authority.
Access at a glance
- Web (provider site)Available
- REST APIAvailable
- MCPAvailable
- DownloadAwaiting rights confirmation
Premiumpaid
Specification
Dataset facts
Values come from the provider catalog. Anything not yet verified with the provider is labeled as such rather than estimated.
- Provider
- LAW.co
- Source
- LAW.co enrichment pipeline — LLM-generated from public-domain opinion text, checked by a second-model faithfulness judge (CaseMeta.enrichment_model, faithfulness_score).
- Category
- Legal
- Geographic coverage
- United States. Subset only; the plan targets the most-cited cases.
- Jurisdiction
- U.S. federal, U.S. state
- Date range
- Not yet verified
- Last updated
- Not yet verified
- Update frequency
- Daily batch ('enrich-pending-daily'), subject to LAW.co's monthly enrichment budget.
- Record count
- Not yet verified. Unverified. Ingestion plan targets ~50K most-prominent cases over 6 months; actual published count unknown.
- Formats
- JSON
- Document types
- case-summary
- Pricing tier
- Premium
Access methods
How you can reach this data
Each method shows its real status. Methods not yet connected or awaiting rights confirmation are listed so you can plan, but cannot be used yet.
Web (provider site)
AvailableShown on public law.co case pages once published.
Formats: html
Open on provider site ↗REST API
AvailableReturned as the `enrichment` block of a case record.
Formats: json
MCP
AvailableVia Data.co MCP tools.
Formats: json
Download
Awaiting rights confirmationBulk export.
Formats: jsonl
Why: LAW.co proprietary derived layer; ToS forbids bulk extraction absent a written agreement.
Not available through Data.co yet.
Licensing
Rights and redistribution
- Redistribution
- Paid — provider-owned, licensed access only
- Bulk download
- Awaiting rights confirmation
- Notes
- Summaries, holdings, issue lists, topics, classifications, citation graph and embeddings are owned by LAW.co. Redistribution via Data.co requires an intercompany license (open question).
- Agreement
- LAW.co and Data.co are affiliated. A written intercompany agreement covering redistribution and pricing is pending; until it is signed, Data.co does not sell access to or bulk-export this dataset.
Schema
6 fields
Fields marked derived are AI-generated or editorial and are kept separate from original source text, with their own provenance.
| Field | Type | Nullable | Origin | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
case_id | integer | No | Source | LAW.co case id. |
summary | text | Yes | Derived (AI) | Plain-language summary. |
holding | text | Yes | Derived (AI) | Holding. |
key_issues | string[] | Yes | Derived (AI) | Key issues. |
topics | string[] | Yes | Derived (AI) | Topic tags. |
procedural_posture | text | Yes | Derived (AI) | Procedural posture. |
Sample records
What a record looks like
DemoDemo records — not real legal data. These are synthetic placeholders shaped like this dataset's records; they are not court opinions, statutes or bills and must not be cited.
[
{
"case_id": "demo:case:0002",
"summary": "[DEMO] Placeholder AI summary for demo record 2. Not real analysis.",
"holding": "[DEMO] Placeholder holding text.",
"key_issues": [
"[DEMO] placeholder issue"
],
"topics": [
"demo-employment"
],
"procedural_posture": "[DEMO] placeholder posture",
"provenance": {
"provider": "demo",
"is_derived": true,
"generator": "demo-fixture"
},
"demo": true
},
{
"case_id": "demo:case:0004",
"summary": "[DEMO] Placeholder AI summary for demo record 4. Not real analysis.",
"holding": "[DEMO] Placeholder holding text.",
"key_issues": [
"[DEMO] placeholder issue"
],
"topics": [
"demo-contracts"
],
"procedural_posture": "[DEMO] placeholder posture",
"provenance": {
"provider": "demo",
"is_derived": true,
"generator": "demo-fixture"
},
"demo": true
},
{
"case_id": "demo:case:0006",
"summary": "[DEMO] Placeholder AI summary for demo record 6. Not real analysis.",
"holding": "[DEMO] Placeholder holding text.",
"key_issues": [
"[DEMO] placeholder issue"
],
"topics": [
"demo-employment"
],
"procedural_posture": "[DEMO] placeholder posture",
"provenance": {
"provider": "demo",
"is_derived": true,
"generator": "demo-fixture"
},
"demo": true
}
]Interactive preview
Search the demo records
The same filters the live connector supports — jurisdiction, court, document type, date, citation, topic and keyword — running over synthetic samples. The API returns live records.
DemoDemo records — not real legal data. Synthetic placeholders (titles prefixed [DEMO], citations DEMO-####) used for previews on this site; the API returns live records.
12 of 12 demo records
Data quality
Known limitations
Published so you can judge fitness for your use case before you build on it.
- AI-generated; must be labelled as such and never presented as the court's language.
- Unreviewed enrichment is withheld by LAW.co's public endpoint (is_published=false).
Pricing
Premium
Premium tier: provider-owned content priced separately from plan access. Pricing depends on the pending LAW.co agreement and is not published yet.
Access is included in Marketplace plans — see pricing. Provider prices for premium tiers are not published yet. Demo records are never billed.
Usage examples
REST and MCP, one key.
The Data.co API and MCP server are live, and this dataset's REST access is available. Shapes follow the API reference.
terminal
curl https://api.data.co/v1/datasets/lawco-case-summaries \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $DATACO_API_KEY"Example calls · set DATACO_API_KEY to your key
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