API root
/api
Every endpoint lives under one route prefix.
RechtspraakECHRCJEUNetworks
Citations API
REST access to legal citation networks, case metadata, and legal reference extraction across Dutch and European case law.
Pagination
cursor
Search endpoints page with a stable cursor.
Data model
cle_v2
One Postgres schema across all three corpora.
Auth
Scoped keys
Minted in the access console, checked on every call.
Capabilities
What you can do
Search, traverse, and analyse citation networks without knowing the storage details of each legal corpus.
Citation network search
Query result nodes and expand inbound and outbound citation neighbourhoods, with bounded graph responses.
Combined corpus queries
Run one query across Rechtspraak, ECHR, and CJEU with dataset-aware totals and cursor pagination.
Graph statistics
Compute degree, centrality, PageRank, and community detection over citation subgraphs.
Legal reference extraction
Resolve Dutch legal references and connect free text to known legal identifiers and related cases.
Reference
Endpoints
The four corpora you can search. There are fifteen routes in total.
/api/cjeu
Court of Justice of the EU cases and their citation edges.
/api/combined
One query across all three corpora, with per-dataset totals.
/api/echr
European Court of Human Rights judgments from HUDOC, with article and state filters.
/api/rechtspraak
Dutch case law, by keyword, ECLI, court, or citation depth.