OpenLegalData

Metadata coverage

What each island captures vs what's actually searchable, normalized to 20 legal-search concepts and broken out by island category (an island may belong to several — e.g. cpr is both court rules and a practice-area composite). A concept is green when it's either a declared facet or an intrinsically retrievable field (title, id, url, citation, pdf, source — exposed via full-text search, the /doc lookup and /cite). A cell is blue (a real gap) only when the island captures a field that genuinely varies but offers no facet for it — single-valued fields are not gaps (nothing to filter on). Within each section rows sort by prevalence; common rows (≥60% of the section) emphasized.

● searchable (faceted or retrievable) ◐ varies but not yet faceted (gap) ✕ missing (common field) · n/a ▦ typed-column island

Case law 10 islands

Court opinions, judgments and decisions.

concept srch/havecap▦courtlistener▦scotusuk-scot-caselawuk-ni-caselawca-fedcourtsus-courtscaseholdicjediscovery
court6/9●●·●●●·✕·●
id8/8●●✕●●●●✕●●
citation8/8●●●●●●●✕✕●
date6/8●●●✕··●✕●●
source8/8✕✕●●●●●●●●
title7/7●✕●●●●●✕✕●
year6/6✕✕●●●●●✕●✕
doc-type5/6✕✕✕●●·●●✕●
jurisdiction2/6●✕✕····✕✕●
language1/6✕✕✕····✕●·
judges3/5···●●····●
parties1/5········●·
url5/5·●●··●●··●
cites/graph4/4●●·●●·····
case-number3/3··●··●●···
pdf3/3·····●●·●·
subject/tags2/2·····●···●
status1/1·········●

Legislation & statutes 65 islands

Codified statutes, acts, consolidated legislation and their amendment/notes apparatus.

concept srch/haveuscus-caus-flus-gaus-txus-akus-alus-arus-azus-cous-ctus-dcus-deus-hius-iaus-idus-ilus-inus-ksus-kyus-laus-maus-mdus-meus-mius-mnus-mous-msus-mtus-ncus-ndus-neus-nhus-nmus-nyus-ohus-okus-paus-prus-sdus-tnus-utus-vaus-vtus-waus-wius-wyus-constitutionsus-compsus-conanus-plawuk-legislationuk-amendmentsuk-explanatory-notesau-lawsca-lawsca-bcca-mbca-nlca-nsie-lawshk-lawsmteurlexeurlex-archive
doc-type15/63✕●·✕···············································●●●●●●●●●●●●●●
source63/63●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●✕✕
title62/62●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●✕●●●●✕✕●●●●●●●●●●●
jurisdiction5/59✕··············································●···✕✕✕●··●●●···✕✕
citation58/58✕●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●✕✕✕✕✕●●●●●●✕●●
year57/58✕✕✕✕●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●·✕✕●●●●●●●●●●●●✕●●
status52/53●✕✕✕✕●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●✕✕✕●✕✕●·●●●✕●●●✕✕
structure49/50●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●◐✕●✕✕✕✕✕✕●✕✕✕✕✕✕✕✕
url20/20●●●●●···········································●●●··●●●●●●●●●●●●
id18/18●●●●●···········································●●●●··●●●●●●●●●··
date16/17●●··●···········································●·●···●●●●●●●●●●●
language5/17······················································●··●●●●····
pdf9/9······················································●●●●·●●·●●●
subject/tags6/6·················································●·●·····●····●●●
case-number4/4···················································●··●●····●····
cites/graph2/2·······························································●●

Court rules & procedure 21 islands

Court submission rules, filing procedures and practice requirements — the AI-736/AI-738 programme.

concept srch/haveus-rulesus-id-rulesus-ri-rulesus-ak-rulesus-ca-rulesus-ct-rulesus-dc-rulesus-hi-rulesus-ia-rulesus-il-rulesus-ks-rulesus-me-rulesus-mn-rulesus-mt-rulesus-ne-rulesus-pa-rulesus-sc-rulesus-tn-rulesus-wv-rulesuk-ew-rulescpr
title21/21●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●
id21/21●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●
citation21/21●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●
doc-type1/21···◐·◐··◐·◐······◐·◐●
jurisdiction1/21····················●
source21/21●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●
language0/20····················✕
structure15/19●●◐◐●●✕●●●◐●●●●◐●●●●✕
status19/19●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●✕✕
url18/18●●✕✕●●●●●●●✕●●●●●●●●●
date1/15●◐✕✕◐◐✕◐◐◐◐✕◐◐◐◐✕◐✕◐·
year6/7●·●●·●··●··●·········
court5/5··●···●●·········●●··
subject/tags1/1····················●
case-number1/1····················●

Regulations & administrative 6 islands

Regulatory codes, registers, agency guidance, gazettes and presidential documents.

concept srch/haveecfrfedregfedreg-archiveus-irsus-eoadvertising
title6/6●●●●●●
year6/6●●●●●●
source6/6●●●●●●
citation5/5✕●●●●●
date5/5✕●●●●●
doc-type3/5✕●●··●
subject/tags3/4✕●●●✕·
structure4/4●●●●✕✕
url4/4●✕✕●●●
id3/3···●●●
jurisdiction0/3······
pdf3/3·●●·●·
language0/2······
case-number1/1···●··
status1/1·····●

Legislative process & records 9 islands

Bills, session laws, congressional records, committee reports and research services.

concept srch/haveus-plawbillsbillsumus-billsus-statebillsus-crecus-crptus-cdocus-crs
title9/9●●●●●●●●●
source9/9●●●●●●●●●
citation8/8●●✕●●●●●●
date7/8●●✕●●·●●●
doc-type5/8·●✕●●·●●·
jurisdiction3/8·✕●·●●···
language0/8··✕······
url8/8●●✕●●●●●●
id7/7●✕✕●●●●●●
court7/7✕●●●●●●●✕
year7/7●●✕●●✕●●●
subject/tags3/4···●●···●
pdf4/4·····●●●●
case-number2/2·●··●····
structure1/1·····●···
status1/1····●····

Contracts & transactional 5 islands

Contract clause corpora and deal-point references.

concept srch/haveacordcuadcontractnlimaudledgar▦
doc-type4/4✕●●●●
source4/4●●●●✕
title2/2·●·●·
subject/tags2/2●··●·
id1/1····●
jurisdiction1/1····●
url1/1··●··

Practice areas & compliance 12 islands

Cross-jurisdiction practice-area composites (AML, sanctions, employment, …).

concept srch/havecpradvertisingairegulationamlcompliancedataprotectionediscoveryemploymentenergyimmigrationsanctionssend
title12/12●●●●●●●●●●●●
id12/12●●●●●●●●●●●●
citation12/12●●●●●●●●●●●●
date8/12·●●·●·●·●●●●
doc-type11/12●●●●·●●●●●●●
jurisdiction11/12●·●●●●●●●●●●
url12/12●●●●●●●●●●●●
source12/12●●●●●●●●●●●●
subject/tags3/11●·✕···●·●···
status4/11✕●····●·●··●
year9/10·●✕●●●✕●●●●●
parties0/2············
structure1/2···········●
court1/1······●·····
judges1/1······●·····
case-number1/1●···········
language0/1············

International & treaties 3 islands

International courts, treaty bodies and treaty documents.

concept srch/haveicjus-treatieseu
id3/3●●●
court1/3··●
date3/3●●●
year3/3●●●
language2/3●·●
pdf3/3●●●
source3/3●●●
title2/2✕●●
doc-type1/2✕·●
jurisdiction1/2✕·●
case-number2/2✕●●
url2/2✕●●
citation1/1·●·
parties1/1●··
subject/tags1/1··●
cites/graph1/1··●
status1/1··●
outcome1/1··●

Country legal-source aggregators 6 islands

Multi-source national islands spanning several of the above.

concept srch/haveaucaieukeunz
title6/6●●●●●●
id6/6●●●●●●
date6/6●●●●●●
year6/6●●●●●●
doc-type5/6·●●●●●
case-number6/6●●●●●●
url6/6●●●●●●
source6/6●●●●●●
court4/4✕●●●●✕
subject/tags4/4✕●●●●✕
language3/4●●·✕●✕
status3/4●·✕●●✕
jurisdiction2/3·●··●·
parties2/2··●●··
pdf2/2··●·●·
outcome2/2···●●·
citation1/1·●····
judges1/1··●···
cites/graph1/1····●·

Litigation records & evidence 2 islands

Litigation document collections and exhibits.

concept srch/haveus-talcus-recap
title2/2●●
id2/2●●
doc-type1/2●·
jurisdiction0/2··
language0/2··
url2/2●●
pdf2/2●●
source2/2●●
court1/1·●
date0/1··
year1/1●·

Per-concept count = searchable / present across the section's islands. A blue (◐) cell is the actionable gap: a field that varies across documents but isn't yet a facet — adding one is cheap. Single-valued captured fields (e.g. a one-jurisdiction island's jurisdiction) are not gaps. Typed-column islands (cap, courtlistener) search via custom workers. Sources: catalog/metadata-matrix.json (sampled live) + catalog/island-categories.json (curated).