eurlex_get_cases
Search CJEU and General Court case law — judgments, orders, and Advocate General opinions — by case number, party name, subject, or date range.
How to use it
eurlex_get_cases is exposed by the Eur Lex MCP Server MCP server. Add the server to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf and others), and the eurlex_get_cases tool becomes available to the model automatically. See the full listing for setup details and every tool this server provides.
Install Eur Lex MCP Server
docker run --rm -p 3010:3010 eur-lex-mcp-serverOther tools in Eur Lex MCP Server (6)
Search the EuroVoc multilingual thesaurus to resolve human-readable terms to EuroVoc concept IDs — required before using the eurovocconcept filter in eurlexsearchdocuments.
Fetch structured metadata and full text (HTML, Markdown, or Formex4 XML) for a work by CELEX number or ELI URI.
Traverse the CELLAR relationship graph: amendment chain, consolidated versions, legal basis, citation network, and national transposition measures.
Resolve an EU legal citation — a CELEX number or an ELI URI — to the canonical CELLAR work.
Execute a raw SPARQL SELECT query against the CELLAR Virtuoso endpoint. Results capped at 100; use only when curated tools don't cover the needed CDM ontology traversal.
Search EU legislation, treaties, and preparatory acts across the CELLAR corpus. Filters by document type, date range, EuroVoc concept, author institution, and in-force status.