Caselaw vs Swiss Case Law
A side-by-side look at the Caselaw and Swiss Case Law MCP servers: transport, auth, tools, quality signals, and the config to install either one in Claude, Cursor, Windsurf or VS Code.
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CaselawLegalSearch 197,000+ Pakistani court judgments (1970-2025) and walk their citation graph.50GoodAuth: not declaredVerdict: choose Caselaw for legal work; choose Swiss Case Law for legal over a hosted endpoint. You can also run both side by side in one mcpServers block.
Which MCP server should you choose?
CChoose Caselaw when
- You need dedicated capabilities in the Legal domain.
- You want tools like
caselaw_search, caselaw_search_questions, caselaw_lookup_citation.
Choose Swiss Case Law when
- You need dedicated capabilities in the Legal domain.
- You prefer a remote HTTP/SSE transport.
- You want tools like
search, fetch, search_decisions.
Feature & specification comparison
Rows where the two servers differ are marked.
| Spec | C Caselaw | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Legal | Legal |
| Quality signal | 50/100 · Good | 61/100 · Good |
| Install command | Not confirmed yet | Confirmed |
| Transport | — | Remote HTTP/SSE |
| Auth | Not declared | Not declared |
| Pricing | Not declared | Not declared |
| Required env vars | None listed | None listed |
| Verified owner | Community listing |
Tools & capabilities
Caselaw tools 7
caselaw_searchFull-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_questionsFind 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_citationFind 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_caseFetch 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).
Ready-to-paste client configs
Paste either block (or both) into your client config, e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json. We only show a config when the install command is confirmed.
Caselaw
No confirmed install command for Caselaw yet — follow the setup steps linked from its listing page rather than a guessed package name.
Swiss Case Law
{
"mcpServers": {
"swiss-case-law": {
"url": "https://mcp.opencaselaw.ch"
}
}
}
Frequently asked questions
Caselaw is categorized under Legal and uses an install path we have not confirmed yet. Swiss Case Law belongs to Legal and uses a remote HTTP/SSE transport. Pick Caselaw for legal work and Swiss Case Law for legal.
Copy the mcpServers block from the config section on this page into your client's config (for example claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json), then fully restart the client. Caselaw has no confirmed install command yet — follow its own setup instructions.
Caselaw has no declared pricing — check the project's own site. Swiss Case Law has no declared pricing — check the project's own site. If a server needs environment variables such as API keys, define them under the env key in your client's MCP config.
Yes. MCP clients support multiple servers: add caselaw and swiss-case-law as separate keys in the same mcpServers object, and your assistant will call tools from either one.
On AllMCPs, Caselaw has a quality signal of 50/100 (Good) with 0 views, 0 installs and 0 GitHub stars. Swiss Case Law has 61/100 (Good) with 1 views, 0 installs and 72 GitHub stars.