Cases Read

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Supports listing, retrieving, creating, updating, and deleting cases.

Creating cases:

POST /api/cases/?extract_refs=true with JSON body containing:

  • court_name (required): Court name for automatic resolution
  • file_number (required): Court file number
  • date (required): Publication date (YYYY-MM-DD)
  • content (required): Full case content in HTML
  • type (optional): Decision type (e.g., 'Urteil', 'Beschluss')
  • ecli (optional): European Case Law Identifier
  • abstract (optional): Case summary in HTML
  • title (optional): Case title
  • source (optional): Object with name (required) and homepage (optional). Looked up by name; created if not found. Default source used when omitted. Query parameters:
  • extract_refs (optional): Extract references from content (default: true)

The court is automatically resolved from the court_name. Returns 409 Conflict if a case with the same court and file_number exists.

Options

Id
Ein eindeutiger Ganzzahl-Wert, der case identifiziert.
Result Format

Specify how the response should be mapped to the table output. The following formats are available:

Structured Table: Returns a parsed table with data split into rows and columns.

  • Id:
  • Slug:
  • Court:
  • File Number: File number as defined by court
  • Date: Publication date as in source
  • Created Date: Entry is created at this date time
  • Updated Date: Date time of last change
  • Type: Type of decision (Urteil, Beschluss, ...)
  • Ecli: European Case Law Identifier
  • Content: Case full-text formatted in Legal HTML
  • Source Url: Identifier of source object (URL for web pages, file names or IDs for corpora)
  • Review Status: Review status for case visibility

Raw Response: Returns the raw response in a single row with the following columns:

  • body: Response body
  • status: HTTP status code

Input Ports

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Configuration data.

Output Ports

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Result of the request depending on the selected Result Format.
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Configuration data (this is the same as the input port; it is provided as passthrough for sequentially chaining nodes to declutter your workflow connections).

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Installation

To use this node in KNIME, install the extension Open Legal Data Nodes from the below update site following our NodePit Product and Node Installation Guide:

v5.12

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Plugin provider: NodePit
Plugin version: 1.3.0.202607100734
On NodePit since: 2026-07-10
Last update: 2026-07-21
Tags: Modern UI
KNIME versions: Since v4.4
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