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 12 islands

Court opinions, judgments and decisions.

concept srch/havecapcourtlistenerscotusuk-scot-caselawuk-ni-caselawca-sccca-fedcourtsus-courtscaseholdicjcoeediscovery
id10/10
citation10/10
date7/10··
source10/10
title9/9
court6/9···
year8/8
doc-type6/8··
language3/8·····
jurisdiction2/7··········
url7/7·····
judges3/6········
parties2/6··········
case-number5/5·······
cites/graph4/4········
pdf4/4········
subject/tags3/3·········
status1/1···········
outcome1/1···········

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 4 islands

International courts, treaty bodies and treaty documents.

concept srch/haveicjcoeus-treatieseu
id4/4
date4/4
year4/4
language3/4·
source4/4
title3/3
court1/3··
doc-type2/3·
case-number3/3
url3/3
pdf3/3
citation2/2··
parties2/2··
jurisdiction1/2···
outcome2/2··
subject/tags1/1···
cites/graph1/1···
status1/1···

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).