# caselaw [Health: Active] **Category:** ⚖️ Legal **Repository:** https://pakistancaselaw.com/for-ai **Views:** 0 **Installs:** 0 **Upvotes:** 0 **Directory Page:** https://allmcps.com/mcp/caselaw ## Description Search 197,000+ Pakistani court judgments (1970-2025) and walk their citation graph. ## Tools Capabilities this server exposes over MCP: - **caselaw_search** — Full-text search of Pakistani judgments (Supreme Court, High Courts, Federal Shariat Court and tribunals, 1970 onward), with optional filters by court, judge, law report and year. Ranking follows how lawyers research: nearness to the legal point decides which cases are returned; among comparably-near cases, more senior court > larger bench > more recent > more cited. For the current state of the law, add year_from (e.g. 2025); use sort='court' for the most authoritative first. With no query, the filters list judgments newest first - e.g. court='Supreme Court' gives the latest Supreme Court judgments, journal='PLD' with year_from=year_to=2024 gives that volume, and sort='recently_added' alone shows what was added to the site most recently. Returns cases with id, title, citation, court, year, outcome and the public URL. For an exact report citation use caselaw_lookup_citation. To read a case, pass its id to caselaw_get_case. - **caselaw_search_questions** — Find judgments by the QUESTION they settle, rather than by words they contain. Every judgment summary on this corpus records the questions that judgment actually decides — e.g. "Does delay in lodging the FIR by itself entitle the accused to bail?" This searches those questions, so it matches the shape a legal problem arrives in rather than the vocabulary a 1987 bench happened to use. COVERAGE IS PARTIAL: only some judgments have a summary with questions yet (the response's `coverage_note` gives the current live ratio, which keeps growing). An empty result means no *summarised* judgment matched — it does NOT mean no such judgment exists. Fall back to caselaw_search, which covers the whole corpus. The questions are prepared from the judgment text. They are a finding aid, not a holding: cite the judgment, never the question. Pass an id to caselaw_get_case to read it. - **caselaw_lookup_citation** — Find the judgment(s) at an exact law-report citation. Example: journal='PLD', year=1995, page=34 → PLD 1995 Supreme Court 34. Omit page to list everything reported in that journal+year. Returns the same case shape as caselaw_search. - **caselaw_get_case** — Fetch one judgment by id. section='summary' (default) returns metadata + the headnote (plain-language summary, the laws/provisions referred, and keyword tags) — read this first to judge relevance cheaply. section='full' additionally returns the judgment body text (capped at ~40,000 chars; the response flags body_truncated/body_chars_total when longer). - **caselaw_get_citations** — Walk the citation graph FORWARD: list the in-corpus cases that THIS judgment cites (the precedents it relied on). Combine with caselaw_get_cited_by to traverse precedent backward and forward until a research question is resolved. Most useful on RECENT judgments: a 2024-25 case usually has nobody citing it yet, but its own citation list is a curated map of the established authority on the point. - **caselaw_get_cited_by** — Walk the citation graph BACKWARD: list later cases that cite THIS judgment (how it was subsequently treated — followed, distinguished, relied upon). Returns newest first. Most useful on OLDER or landmark judgments: it shows whether the case is still followed and where the principle has been applied since. A leading case can have hundreds of citing cases. - **caselaw_most_cited** — List the most-cited (landmark) judgments in the corpus, ranked by how many other cases cite them. A good entry point for the leading authorities on Pakistani law. ## Claude Desktop Quick Installation No confirmed install details yet, so no config is published. Follow the setup steps in the repository above. ## Documentation ## What caselaw MCP server does The caselaw MCP server provides an MCP interface for researching Pakistani court decisions. The available description identifies two core capabilities: searching a collection of more than 197,000 Pakistani court judgments and exploring the citation graph connecting those judgments. The indexed material covers decisions from 1970 through 2025. That date range makes the service relevant for both historical research and more recent Pakistani case-law queries. The source for the service is PakistanCaselaw.com’s AI page. Use this caselaw MCP server when an AI agent needs to locate judgments by search and then examine relationships among cited decisions. The supplied material does not describe additional legal databases, document types, jurisdictions, or analysis features, so those should not be assumed. ## How it works An MCP-compatible client can use the server to search the Pakistani judgment collection and walk its citation graph. A typical research flow is to find relevant decisions first, then follow citations to inspect related authorities and the cases that reference them. The available information does not specify the transport, command, package manager, authentication method, request schema, response format, or citation-graph traversal parameters. Configuration details should therefore be taken from the service’s documentation at the provided source rather than inferred from this listing. ## Tools and capabilities Supported capabilities identified in the listing include: - Searching more than 197,000 Pakistani court judgments. - Querying decisions dated from 1970 to 2025. - Navigating the citation graph between judgments. - Using the case-law collection through an MCP interface for AI-assisted research. The material does not name individual MCP tool identifiers or describe filters, sorting, pagination, full-text retrieval, or export options. ## Limitations and notes The caselaw MCP server is described specifically around Pakistani court judgments. The listing does not establish coverage outside Pakistan or confirm that every judgment in the stated date range is included. It also does not provide installation instructions, environment variables, licensing information, supported MCP clients, rate limits, or authentication requirements. The date range and collection size are claims from the supplied description and may change as the underlying service is updated. For exact coverage, operational requirements, and current behavior, consult the linked PakistanCaselaw.com AI documentation. No conclusion about legal accuracy, completeness, or suitability for a particular legal matter is supported by the available material. _Full upstream README: https://allmcps.com/mcp/caselaw/readme_