Swiss Case Law
ch.opencaselaw/swiss-caselaw956k Swiss court decisions: full-text search, citation graph, statute lookup (DE/FR/IT)
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Search Swiss court decisions AND European Court of Human Rights decisions concerning Switzerland (~2,800 ECHR docs across bge_egmr, hudoc_ch, ecthr_chamber, ecthr_committee, ecthr_grand_chamber) using…
Fetch a single court decision with full text. Look up by decision_id (e.g., bger_6B_1234_2025), docket number (e.g., 6B_1234/2025), or partial match. Full text is truncated at 200,000 characters for v…
List all available courts with decision counts, date ranges, and language coverage. Use this to discover what data is available.
Get aggregate statistics about the dataset. Optionally filter by court, canton, or year.
Given a decision_id, show what it cites and what cites it. Uses the reference graph database with 9.86M citation edges. Returns resolved citations with confidence scores and unresolved references.
Trace the appeal chain (Instanzenzug) for a decision. Shows prior instances (lower courts) and subsequent instances (appeals to higher courts). Reconstructs the full procedural path, e.g. Bezirksgeric…
Find the most-cited decisions for a topic or statute. Authority ranking based on citation graph. Filter by statute (law_code + article), topic query, court, and date range. Top-3 results auto-attach a…
Year-by-year decision counts showing jurisprudence evolution. Use with a statute reference (law_code + article), a text query, or both. Returns yearly counts with visual bar chart.
Build a research-only mock decision outline from user facts. Combines relevant Swiss case law retrieval with statute references. If possible, enriches statutes with Fedlex text excerpts. IMPORTANT: Th…
Structured case brief: regeste, Sachverhalt, key Erwägungen (first 12 only — for orientation, NOT a pinpoint ranking), Dispositiv, statutes, citation authority, related cases. Accepts BGE ref, decisio…
Structured decision fields: Sachverhalt (facts), Erwägungen as numbered paragraphs ('1', '1.1', '2.3'), Dispositiv (ruling), Regeste (BGE only). Federal decisions only; for cantonal use get_decision. …
Verbatim text of ONE numbered Erwägung — the citable unit in Swiss practice (e.g. 'BGE 140 III 86 E. 2.3'). Use when the user already gave an e_number. If only a claim was given (no e_number): use fin…
Find which Erwägung paragraph(s) match a legal claim. Server-side FTS5+BM25 over per-paragraph text; returns top-k with confidence labels (high/medium/low) and a highlighted_snippet wrapping the match…
Return verbatim text from the Federal Council Botschaft (or Erläuterungsbericht) explaining the legislative purpose of a specific article. Joins the verbatim Botschaft corpus (post-2003 BBl publicatio…
Full-text search across the verbatim Federal Council Botschaft corpus. Where get_article_purpose answers 'why does Art. X exist?', this tool answers 'show me every Botschaft passage about TOPIC X'. Us…
Chronological story of a single statute article: current text + every linked Botschaft (enacted + amendments) + leading court interpretations + doctrinal commentary, all ordered by date. Combines stat…
Get the official Regeste (head-note) of a Swiss court decision. The Regeste is the court's own formulation of the legal rule established — for BGEs especially, this is the canonical citation target. O…
Verify whether a Swiss court decision actually supports a legal claim. Uses an independent Sonnet judge to compare the claim against verbatim text from the decision (Erwägung if pinpoint given, else R…
MANDATORY FINAL-STEP AUDIT covering up to FIVE hallucination classes: (1) case citations — verifies every BGE/BGer/BVGer/BStGer/BPatGer/MKGE/ATF/TF/TAF/TPF/TFB/ATMC/STMC reference exists in the corpus…
Get the canonical Swiss citation string for a decision reference. CALL THIS BEFORE writing any case citation in your response. Returns ready-to-embed citation_string (DE/FR/IT variants plus a canonica…
Get statute text + leading cases + doctrinal timeline + Federal Council Botschaft (legislative intent) + scholarly commentary for a Swiss law article or legal concept. ALWAYS USE THIS for questions ab…
Generate a Swiss law exam practice question (Fallbearbeitung) based on a real BGE. Returns a fact pattern (Sachverhalt) from a real court decision and a hidden analysis (applicable statutes, leading c…
AUTHORITATIVE LOOKUP for the current text of any Swiss law article — federal OR cantonal. Served from two local mirrors: • Federal (canton='CH', default): Fedlex mirror — core codes (OR, ZGB, StGB, …
UNIFIED full-text search across every Swiss statute article indexed locally — federal (Fedlex mirror) AND cantonal (LexFind mirror across all 26 cantons). BM25-ranked per corpus, merged by interleavin…
Look up a scholarly legal commentary from OnlineKommentar.ch (CC-BY-4.0) for a Swiss federal law article. Without article: lists available commentaries for that law. With article: returns the full com…
Full-text search across all OnlineKommentar.ch legal commentaries. Searches commentary text, titles, and article numbers. Returns ranked results with snippets, authors, and links. Useful for finding d…
Look up Materialien for a Swiss federal law article: Botschaft (legislative intent, key arguments, design choices, rejected alternatives) + parliamentary modifications. COVERAGE TODAY: per-article dig…
Full-text search across digested Materialien (legislative intent, key arguments, design choices, general context). COVERAGE TODAY: BV + BGFA digests + BV parliamentary debate transcripts only. Full pe…
NATURAL-LANGUAGE SEARCH across all Swiss legislation — 33,000+ federal and cantonal legislative texts from LexFind.ch, covering all 26 cantons (ZH, BE, LU, UR, SZ, OW, NW, GL, ZG, FR, SO, BS, BL, SH, …
Retrieve the FULL TEXT and article list of a specific Swiss law, federal or cantonal, by LexFind ID or SR/systematic number. For federal laws in the Fedlex mirror this is instant (local SQLite). For c…
Browse recent legislation changes for a canton or federal level. Shows new laws, amendments, and abrogations with dates.
Full-text search across Swiss FEDERAL administrative practice (Verwaltungspraxis): Kreisschreiben, Rundschreiben, Weisungen, Vollzugshilfen, Handbücher. These are NOT court decisions — they are the bi…
Retrieve a single federal administrative-practice document by its doc_id (e.g. 'estv_ks_ks_nr_28', 'sem_weisungen_weisungen-aug-d'). Returns full body text, title, date, issuing authority, and PDF URL…
How to use
Add to your Claude Desktop / Cursor / Cline MCP config:
{
"mcpServers": {
"swiss_case_law": {
"url": "https://mcp.opencaselaw.ch",
"transport": "sse"
}
}
}