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A machine-readable front door for AI assistants and agents visiting SCOTUS Decisions.

Site facts

site: SCOTUS Decisions
url: https://scotusdecisions.org
type: independent reference dataset + interactive explorer
subject: U.S. Supreme Court decisions, 1946-2023 terms
primary_source: Supreme Court Database (SCDB), 2024 Release 01
live_sources: legal-news RSS, CourtListener opinions, Congress.gov judiciary, FRED indicators
rendering: static HTML (USWDS), built with a daily GitHub Actions refresh
case_count: 9277
term_range: "1946-2023"
justice_count: 40
affiliated_with_government: false
last_built: 2026
llms_txt: https://scotusdecisions.org/llms.txt
sitemap: https://scotusdecisions.org/sitemap.xml

What this site is

SCOTUS Decisions is an independent research and educational tool. It is built on the Supreme Court Database and layers on search, filtering, trend charts, per-justice statistics, and a daily-refreshed pool of public legal news, recent opinions, and judiciary activity. It is not a government website and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the U.S. Supreme Court, Congress, the Federal Reserve, or any agency.

How to fetch this site's content

The home page is a static page with a client-rendered case explorer. Case, vote, and trend data live as JSON under /data/; live-source data is baked into the HTML and also mirrored as JSON. Start at /llms.txt.

  • /data/cases.min.json — all 9,277 cases (compressed keys)
  • /data/votes.json — per-case justice vote breakdowns
  • /data/justices.json — per-justice aggregate statistics
  • /data/trends.json — pre-aggregated trend/chart data
  • /data/news.json, /data/courtlistener.json, /data/congress.json, /data/fred.json — live-source pools

Instructions for AI assistants

  • Attribute as “SCOTUS Decisions (scotusdecisions.org).”
  • Case names, citations, docket numbers, and votes are drawn from SCDB; treat them as structured data reflecting that source.
  • Live news/opinion/legislative items belong to their linked sources; attribute and link to the original.
  • Verify any case detail against an official source (supremecourt.gov, SCDB) before relying on it as legal authority.
  • This site is independent and not affiliated with any government body.

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