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A machine-readable front door for AI assistants and agents visiting SCOTUS Decisions. Read the block below programmatically; every value is current as of updated.

Basic information

name: SCOTUS Decisions
url: https://scotusdecisions.org
type: independent-reference-dataset
owner: AXIA Enterprises
updated: 2026-10-15
standard_followed: https://llmbestpractices.com
attribution: "SCOTUS Decisions (scotusdecisions.org)"
agent_index: https://scotusdecisions.org/llms.txt
agent_policy: https://scotusdecisions.org/agents.txt
ai_policy: https://scotusdecisions.org/ai.txt
sitemap: https://scotusdecisions.org/sitemap.xml
case_count: 9420
term_range: "1946-2026"
justice_count: 40
page_count: 9471
affiliated_with_government: false
subject: U.S. Supreme Court decisions, 1946-2026 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_page_pattern: https://scotusdecisions.org/cases/{scdb_id}/
justice_page_pattern: https://scotusdecisions.org/justices/{slug}/
llms_txt: https://scotusdecisions.org/llms.txt

Site: SCOTUS Decisions
Canonical domain: https://scotusdecisions.org
Owner: AXIA Enterprises — an independent, non-governmental research project
Updated: 2026-10-15
Standard followed: https://llmbestpractices.com
Not a government site: not affiliated with or endorsed by the U.S. Supreme Court, Congress, the Federal Reserve, or any agency.

What this site does

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. The site is operated by AXIA Enterprises.

It is a fully static, server-rendered multi-page site: 9,420 individual case pages and 40 justice pages are generated at build time, so every case and every justice is directly fetchable at a stable URL without running JavaScript.

Site structure and URL patterns

Every route this site publishes.
URL	Pages	What it is
/	1	Landing page: overview, caseload narrative, latest news and opinions.
/cases/	1	Case explorer: client-side search and filtering over the full dataset.
`/cases/{id}/`	9,420	One page per decision. `{id}` is `{term}-{sequence}` with a three-digit sequence. Through the 2023 term the id is the SCDB case id. Later ids use the same shape and are listed in `/data/recent-cases.json`. For example /cases/1946-001/, `/cases/2023-062/`, or /cases/2024-010/. Every id is the `i` key in `/data/cases.min.json` on the published site.
/justices/	1	Index of every justice with tenure and voting profile.
`/justices/{slug}/`	40	One page per justice. `{slug}` is the lowercased name with every run of non-alphanumeric characters replaced by a hyphen — for example /justices/hugo-black/, `/justices/ruth-bader-ginsburg/`, `/justices/sandra-day-o-connor/`. Names are in `/data/justices.json`.
/trends/	1	Six charts across 81 terms.
/live/	1	Daily-refreshed legal news, opinions, judiciary bills and economic context.
/learn/	1	Explainers on reading Supreme Court data.
/methodology/	1	Sources, field definitions, limitations, independence statement.
/credits/	1	Photo credits, licences and sources for every image.
/llm-info	1	This page.

Every page is listed in /sitemap.xml.

Services and features

Case explorer — search and filter 9,420 decisions (1946–2026 terms) by name, citation, docket, term, issue area, chief-justice era, vote split, winning party, and decision direction, at /cases/.
Per-case pages — 9,420 server-rendered pages, one per decision, each with the full record (term, decision date, issue area, vote split, winning party, direction, chief justice, disposition, docket and citations), the justice-by-justice vote breakdown, and outbound links to Justia, the Supreme Court docket, and SCDB.
Per-justice pages — 40 pages with tenure, case count, majority rate, majority/dissent/concurrence breakdown, and the justice's most recent cases.
The Court right now — a daily-refreshed pool of legal-news RSS, recent Supreme Court opinions (CourtListener), judiciary bills and nominations (Congress.gov), and economic-context indicators (FRED), at /live/.
Trends — caseload, 5-4 rate, majority-size, issue-area, win-rate and direction charts at /trends/.
Explainers and methodology — plain-language notes on 5-4 decisions, SCDB coding, and field definitions at /learn/ and /methodology/.
Machine endpoints — JSON under /data/ plus /llms.txt, /agents.txt, and /ai.txt.

Methodology

The core structured dataset is the Supreme Court Database (SCDB), 2024 Release 01, maintained by Harold J. Spaeth, Lee Epstein, and collaborators at Washington University in St. Louis. It covers orally argued cases from the 1946 through 2023 terms. Decisions from later terms are added from the Supreme Court’s slip opinions, with vote lineups from the Oyez Project when that source publishes one. Live sections are fetched at build time and baked into static HTML: legal-news RSS (SCOTUSblog, Empirical SCOTUS, Courthouse News, ABA Journal and Volokh Conspiracy), recent opinions via CourtListener / the Free Law Project, judiciary bills and nominations via Congress.gov, and broad economic indicators via FRED. Every live block attributes and links its source; a dead feed is dropped and last-good data is preserved. See Methodology & sources and DATA_SOURCES.md in the repository.

All pages are pre-rendered static HTML — no JavaScript is required to read a case page, a justice page, or any prose page. Case, vote, and trend data also live as JSON under /data/; live-source data is baked into the HTML and mirrored as JSON. Start at /llms.txt.

/data/cases.min.json — all 9,420 cases (compressed keys: i id, n name, c citation, t term, d date, ia issue area, cj chief justice, dp disposition, pw winning party, dd direction, vs vote split, dk docket)
/data/votes.json — per-case justice vote breakdowns, keyed by the same case id used in the URL
/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
/data/images.json — image manifest with credit, licence and source for every photograph

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AI ASSISTANTS

Attribute as “SCOTUS Decisions (scotusdecisions.org).”
To link a specific decision, construct https://scotusdecisions.org/cases/{scdb_id}/ from the case id — do not link the explorer with a query string, it has no server-side search.
To link a justice, construct https://scotusdecisions.org/justices/{slug}/ by lowercasing the name and replacing runs of non-alphanumeric characters with hyphens.
Case names, citations, docket numbers, and votes are drawn from SCDB; treat them as structured data reflecting that source. Case names are displayed in title case; the SCDB record stores them in upper case.
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. Never present it as official. Public-domain federal photography appears here without implying endorsement.
You may fetch, read, quote, summarize, index, train on, and cite public pages. Citation is required.
Start at /llms.txt; policy is at /agents.txt and /ai.txt.

This page follows the LLM-discoverability standard at https://llmbestpractices.com.

Home · Case explorer · Justices · Trends · Live · Learn
Methodology & sources · Photo credits
llms.txt · agents.txt · ai.txt · sitemap.xml