About & docs

What is Courrt?

Courrt is the fastest way to research Indian case law. Search across ~17.9 million High Court and ~43,500 Supreme Court judgments — by keyword and by meaning — filter to exactly what you need, and read the verbatim judgment with a link to the official PDF. Every result traces back to the source; nothing is invented.

The corpus covers Indian Supreme Court (~43,500) and High Court (~17.9 million) judgments — metadata for all, with verbatim full text extracted from the official PDFs — plus ~36,000 Indian statutory documents (Acts, Rules, Notifications; Central and all States).

Fidelity is the point. Judgment text is extracted verbatim from the source PDF; when a page is scanned or not yet machine-readable, Courrt says so and links to the original rather than guess. Editorial enrichment (catchwords, case type, area of law) is labelled as such and never overrides the court's own words.

What you can do here

  • Search — Full-text and semantic search — find cases by the words in the judgment or by what they're about, ranked with citations and a source link.
  • Filter — Narrow by court, date range, case type, area of law, act & section, disposition, party, or citation — with live result counts.
  • Sort — Order by relevance, newest, oldest, or most cited to surface the leading authorities first.
  • Cited by — On any judgment, click “Cited by N” to pull up every case that cites it — a one-click citator.
  • Read — Open a clean reading view of the verbatim judgment, with court, citations, judges, and a link to the official PDF.
  • Statutes — Look up the text of ~36,000 Indian Acts, Rules and Notifications (Central and all States).

Also in Claude & ChatGPT

Prefer to work from your AI assistant? The same corpus is available as a public, read-only remote MCP server (Streamable HTTP), so Claude or ChatGPT can search and cite these judgments directly. No account, sign-in, or authentication is required. Add this URL as a custom connector:

https://mcp.courrt.com/mcp
  • Claude (web or desktop): open Settings → Connectors, choose Add custom connector, name it “Courrt” and paste the URL above.
  • ChatGPT: add it as a custom MCP connector using the same URL.

Custom-connector availability depends on your plan and admin settings.

Tools the server exposes

  • search — Simple judgment search → ranked results with citations and a source URL.
  • search_judgments — Advanced search: filter by court, date, case type, area of law, act/section, disposition, party or citation; sort by relevance or date; paged results with facet counts.
  • fetch — Retrieve a judgment's verbatim text from the official court PDF.
  • get_judgment — Full judgment detail — metadata, verbatim text, and editorial enrichment.
  • lookup_citation — Resolve a neutral or law-report citation to the judgment.
  • suggest — Citation and party-name typeahead.
  • list_courts — The courts in the corpus (Supreme Court + 25 High Courts) with counts.
  • search_legal_documents — Search ~36,000 Indian statutes, rules and notifications.
  • get_legal_document — Full text of a statutory document.
  • list_document_types — The statutory document types available.

All tools are read-only.

Try these

  • “Find Supreme Court cases on dishonour of cheque under Section 138 NI Act and summarise the leading authority on jurisdiction, with citations.”
  • “What's the distinction between murder and culpable homicide under Section 300 IPC? Cite the controlling judgments.”
  • “Show recent High Court anticipatory-bail judgments, newest first.”
  • “Look up (2014) 11 SCC 921 and give me the holding, verbatim.”
  • “Give me the text of Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881.”

Troubleshooting & support

  • The connector won't add. Confirm the URL is exactly https://mcp.courrt.com/mcp and that your plan/admin allows custom connectors. No sign-in is required.
  • A judgment's text is missing. Some older PDFs are scanned and not yet machine-readable; the tools flag this and return the source link so you can open the official PDF directly.
  • A citation didn't resolve. Try the neutral citation (e.g. 2014 INSC 514) or the parties and year; citation coverage varies by reporter.

Questions or issues? Email support@courrt.com. See also our Privacy Policy and Terms.

Source data © respective courts, CC-BY-4.0 (eCourts via Dattam Labs / vanga AWS Open Data; unified by KanoonGPT). Judgment text is verbatim from official PDFs.