get_legislation

MCP tool from Opencaselaw by jonashertner

Full metadata + article text for any federal or cantonal law. Local-first (statutes.db → cantonallaws.db → LexFind API fallback)

How to use it

Project documentation lists get_legislation for the Opencaselaw MCP server. Add the server to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf and others), then check which tools your installed version makes available. Tool availability can depend on configuration and credentials. A server handshake does not verify this tool’s behavior. See the full listing for setup details.

Install Opencaselaw

$claude mcp add swiss-caselaw --transport sse https://mcp.opencaselaw.ch

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browse_legislation_changes

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draft_mock_decision

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find_leading_cases

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generate_exam_question

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get_case_brief

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get_commentary

Scholarly commentary for a specific federal law article from OnlineKommentar.ch (CC-BY-4.0)

get_decision

Fetch a single decision by docket number or ID. Includes citation graph counts (cited by / cites).

get_doctrine

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get_law

Look up a federal or cantonal Swiss law by SR number / abbreviation + optional canton. Returns full article text from the local mirror (Fedlex for federal; cantonallaws.db for cantonal — direct portal scrape for 22 cantons, LexFind PDF extraction for the remaining 4)

get_statistics

Aggregate stats by court, canton, or year

list_courts

List all courts with decision counts

search_commentaries

Full-text search across 362 legal commentaries from OnlineKommentar.ch across 19 federal laws

search_decisions

Full-text search with filters (court, canton, language, date range, chamber)

search_laws

Unified federal + cantonal FTS5 search with BM25 rank interleaving. Filter by canton= for a specific jurisdiction, or jurisdiction='federal' / 'cantonal'

search_legislation

LexFind-backed discovery search across federal + cantonal legislation. fetchtopntexts=N enriches the top N results with full article text in a single call

update_database

Re-download latest Parquet files from HuggingFace and rebuild the local database (local only)