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 11 islands

Court opinions, judgments and decisions.

concept srch/havecapcourtlistenerscotusukcaselawus-courtscaseholdicjcoeediscoveryuk-scot-caselawuk-ni-caselaw
citation9/9
court6/9···
date8/9·
source9/9
title8/8
id8/8
parties2/7·····
year7/7
language2/7·····
doc-type6/6·····
jurisdiction2/6·········
url6/6·····
judges4/5·······
cites/graph5/5······
case-number4/4·······
pdf2/2·········
subject/tags1/1··········
status1/1··········
outcome1/1··········

Legislation & statutes 20 islands

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

concept srch/haveuscus-caus-flus-gaus-txus-compsus-conanus-plawuk-legislationuk-amendmentsuk-explanatory-notesau-lawsca-lawsca-bcca-mbie-lawshk-lawsmteurlexeurlex-archive
title18/18
doc-type13/18·····
url18/18
source18/18
id16/16
date14/15·
language3/15············
jurisdiction2/14············
citation13/13
year13/13
status8/9············
pdf8/8············
structure7/7·············
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-rulescprus-hi-rulesus-sc-rulesus-mn-rulesus-ne-rulesus-tn-rulesus-mt-rulesus-pa-rulesus-ca-rulesuk-ew-rulesus-wv-rulesus-ak-rulesus-ct-rulesus-me-rulesus-il-rulesus-ia-rulesus-dc-rulesus-ks-rules
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 7 islands

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

concept srch/haveecfrfedregfedreg-archiveus-irsus-eoca-gazetteadvertising
title7/7
year7/7
source7/7
date6/6
doc-type4/6··
citation5/5
subject/tags4/5·
url5/5
id4/4···
jurisdiction0/4·······
structure4/4···
language0/3·······
pdf3/3····
case-number2/2·····
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 6 islands

Contract clause corpora and deal-point references.

concept srch/haveacordcuadcontractnlimaudledgarpolicyqa
source5/5
doc-type4/4
title3/3···
subject/tags2/2····
id1/1·····
jurisdiction1/1·····
url1/1·····

Practice areas & compliance 12 islands

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

concept srch/havecpradvertisingpolicyqaamlcompliancedataprotectionediscoveryemploymentenergyimmigrationsanctionssend
title12/12
source12/12
id11/11
citation11/11
date7/11····
doc-type10/11·
subject/tags3/11········
jurisdiction10/11·
url11/11
year9/10·
status4/10······
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 1 island

Litigation document collections and exhibits.

concept srch/haveus-talc
title1/1
id1/1
date0/1·
year1/1
doc-type1/1
jurisdiction0/1·
language0/1·
url1/1
pdf1/1
source1/1

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).