Statutes
Full statute corpora — federal or state codes, session laws — are not currently offered on the Data.co Marketplace.
Not offeredFull statute and code corpora are not currently offered. LAW.co does not hold a statute corpus, and no other provider has listed one.
What does exist
LAW.co maintains a small curated table of state estate-planning statute reference values (for example, thresholds used when generating estate documents), each with an effective date and a government source URL. It is not statute text and not a complete code.
Its accuracy and redistribution rights have not been confirmed by the provider, so it is listed as contact-only. REST and MCP access are not open yet because LAW.co's production statute table is not yet populated, and download is awaiting rights confirmation.
If you need statute text
Official codes are published by Congress and each state legislature. If you hold a licensed or public-domain statute corpus with clean provenance, we would like to list it — apply as a provider.
What statutes are, and why they differ from case law
Statutes are laws passed by a legislature. Session laws are the acts as passed each year; codes arrange the laws in force by subject. Research usually needs the code as it read on a given date, which means versioned text and effective dates — a different problem from collecting court opinions.
Courts interpret statutes, so case law can tell you how a provision has been applied, but an opinion that quotes a statute is not a reliable copy of the current code.
What a statute provider would need to supply
Section-level text with stable identifiers, version history with effective and repeal dates, a government source URL per version, jurisdiction and code metadata, and a rights statement covering both the text and any annotations. The marketplace's provenance fields (source, retrieved-at, license, effective date, document version) are designed to carry exactly that.
How case law can help in the meantime
Court opinions often quote and interpret statutes, so searching opinions for a statute's name or section number can show how courts have applied it. That is useful context, but an opinion quotes the law as it read when the case was decided, not necessarily as it reads today.
Provenance on every record
Whatever the topic, each legal record carries the same provenance fields, so you can tell source text from derived work and cite it correctly.
- provider / sourceId
- Who served the record and its id at that provider.
- upstreamSource
- Where the provider got it (for example CAP or CourtListener), or null if not stated.
- canonicalUrl
- Public URL for the record, when one exists.
- licenseId
- The license that applies, such as public domain for court-authored text.
- isDerived
- false for original text and facts; true for AI or editorial layers.
- retrievedAt
- When Data.co fetched it from the provider.
Access today
Individual cases can be read now on LAW.co's own public case pages. REST API and MCP access through Data.co are live for court opinions, case summaries and the citation graph. Previews on this site are synthetic samples titled [DEMO] that are never billed; the API returns live records. Bulk downloads stay closed until the provider confirms redistribution rights.
Each dataset page shows its status channel by channel, with the reason for anything that is not open, so you can plan an integration without guessing.
Statutes: common questions
Can MCP's search_statutes tool return statute text?
No. Backed by LAW.co, it can only search the estate-planning reference values, as the MCP tool reference notes.
Where can I read official statutes today?
On the websites of Congress and each state legislature, which publish the codes they maintain.
Will you add statutes later?
Only when a provider with clean rights and provenance lists them. We will not scrape codes to fill the gap.
Which states does the reference table cover?
The catalog labels it for U.S. states, but LAW.co has not confirmed which states and categories are complete, so we do not list them.
Tell us what coverage you need.
We will email you if a provider lists statutes. Hold this data yourself? Apply as a provider.
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