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Search CourtListener's free database of US court opinions from Raycast, and open, copy, or cite a case without touching the browser.
You need a CourtListener API token. It's free.
Students and academics can request a free EDU membership for higher limits.
Type a query and press ↵. Results come back with the court, decision date, and citation.
Open the command with an empty search bar and your saved cases and recent searches are waiting instead — ↵ opens a saved case or re-runs a past search.
Searches run on ↵ rather than as you type, because the free tier allows only a handful of requests a minute.
Type or paste a citation — 410 U.S. 113, 125 F.4th 23, even Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) — and the top row offers to look it up. You get the one case, not several thousand text matches. ⌘⇧↵ searches it as ordinary text instead.
⌘⇧M searches on what your query means rather than which of its words appear. Worth it for a question, pointless for a case name.
Asking can police search a car after arresting the driver the ordinary way turns up cases named State v. Police and Turner v. Driver. Asking by meaning turns up vehicle-search cases.
It takes a few seconds longer, so ↵ stays on the ordinary search. If one comes back empty, the other is offered. The option is hidden for citations and for advanced query syntax, which it can't read.
The dropdown narrows to a court: the Supreme Court, any federal circuit, all thirteen at once, any state court of last resort, or all of those together. ⌘⇧Y sets how far back to look, ⌘⇧X clears both.
Filters reset when you close the command, so you never come back tomorrow to quietly narrowed results.
Only published opinions are searched — an unpublished disposition won't appear even when CourtListener has it.
↵ | Open the full opinion on CourtListener |
⌘⇧D | Show or hide the detail pane |
⌘⇧P | Save the case, or unsave it |
⌘⇧C | Copy the citation |
⌘⇧N | Copy the case name |
⌘R | Search again, ignoring the cache |
The detail pane shows the court, decision and argument dates, docket number, judges, every parallel citation, publication status, and how many later cases cite it — alongside the passage your query matched, with your terms in bold.
A few courts also write a summary of the case, and where one exists it leads the pane. Most don't, so most cases won't have one.
⌘⇧P keeps a case. Saved cases sit at the top of the landing page with their citation, ready to open or copy, and never expire.
Recent searches sit below them. ↵ runs one again, ⌘⌫ drops it, ⌘⇧⌫ clears them all. Typing filters the list, so a past search is usually a few characters away. The last 20 are kept for 30 days.
CourtListener's free tier is tight, so the extension tries not to spend requests:
↵, never as you type.⌘R forces a fresh one. Published opinions don't change, so stale results aren't a real risk.Go over anyway and the extension says so plainly, and counts down how long you have to wait.
npm install
npm run dev
npm run dev opens the command in Raycast with hot reload. npm run lint runs the Raycast lint rules, and npm run publish opens a store submission PR against raycast/extensions.